In Things that Keep and Do Not Change, Musgrave dances on the threshold of ecstasy, madness, rage, and desolation, and goes further, to life beyond the moment of extremity. Yet even as we are caught in the undertow of betrayal and loss, we are buoyed up by a terrible sanity that reveals humour and beauty in the shoals of loneliness and pain. By turns dark, playful, and edgy, these poems are informed by a mature intelligence. This is vintage Musgrave.