A shining city - its pulse and its people ... Two Sydney poets take you on a spell-binding tour down well-worn tracks to world famous icons; and to some secret surprise places too! 'Shining City is a visual and verbal delight it revels in its passionate portrayal of the people, the places and cultural settings. The two poets play off each other like two mirrors angled slightly differently, catching the light differently, letting the life spill slightly differently from the frames. The result is a joyous animation of both the historical and contemporary aspects of one of the world's most dazzling cities.' - Judith Beveridge 'Among the places of the world, some enact themselves in prose, others in poetry. Sydney, of all the cities, is the most like a poem; the glamour of its weather, the ecstasy of its light. In this book or easy-going verse and image, this poem, Sydney, has found its poets. And we have found our guides!' - Mark Treddenick