The poems in Annie Muir's New Year's Eve reverberate with rawness and truth, familiar themes of love, family relations and loneliness are reexamined by Muir, creating poems of a lived intensity and sparkling freshness. Muir is a poet who insists on never growing old, instead she 'just keeps starting again from scratch', so that each poem is a new dawn, a new year, a chance to be reborn.