Welsh singer-songwriter Marina Diamandis, who as Marina And The Diamonds rose to early-2010s fame, found the key to unlocking the poetry door through a night spent on psilocybin. The result, her debut collection of poems, does have a certain Alice In Wonderland feel to it, thanks to its title, excellent artwork and tales of adventures in the wonderland of Los Angeles.

As with Alice, Diamandis shows us that there is a predatory underbelly to the world she so wanted to explore, and this revealing account of how a young girl from Abergavenny became a pop star is candid about the challenges of navigating that other place. The style is very modern, bold and often clever, even if at times the verses slip into second-hand song lyric territory, with some uninspired rhyming. There’s plenty of in-the-know imagery for her fanbase, the Diamonds: mermen, sailors (cast as “butchers above who know nothing of love”) and direct reference to moments in her career.

But Diamandis is an open book on her two great themes, love and self-doubt, and finds beautiful ways of expressing herself in a collection that will speak to her Diamonds and other uncut gems alike.