Poems & Images is what it says on its striking cover: Rabbitt’s ‘spare, elegant, and, occasionally biting’, collected verse is published in concert with his visual work, made up of a ‘quirky’ type catalogue from the 1980s; 12 colourful typographic images, first exhibited in the 1990s; and 14 of his relatively recent photographs curated into a layered essay. The poems originate from his three ‘little’ books from the 1980s: the edgy upagainstit; the collaborative On The Line, with Rabbitt’s poem sequence meditating on the line interwoven with artist Jane Pountney’s deft line drawings; the psychosexual thewayofit, also with Pountney’s line drawings; followed over three decades later by the ‘impressive’ Prayers for the Living and the Dead, 2021, with drawings by artist Bodhi Vincent; and new and previously unpublished works. Poems & Images was edited by acclaimed New Zealand author and Lasavia Publishing Ltd’s co-founder Mike Johnson, who provides a critical reading of Rabbitt’s body of work in his comprehensive introduction.