Publisher's Synopsis
This is a stunning first collection of poems that investigates the boundaries of language between the fantastic and the real. The collection ranges from studies in western pastoral history through highflying evocations of the sub-atomic particles to deeply personal poems about and for parents. These poems combine a discrete personalness and habitability with a speculative edge, with the need to breakdown language from simple narrative use. They question the line between language being used by us and language making us, and between older lyrical tradition and the newer experimentalism.
