In Walking Out of the World, triolets, quatrains and villanelles are
interspersed with finely modulated free verse, culminating in the
striking sequence 'The Sentences of Death'. Mead's curiously fascinating
poems, with their beguiling echoes of the modern masters and their
obsessive focus on uncomfortable truths, are mordantly witty as they
confront life and death with eyes wide open. Mead is a poet who, once
read, is not forgotten.