Publisher's Synopsis
This second collection of Cameron's poetry contains a wide variety of subjects, not all of which are commonly associated with poetry: a weak man is interviewed by angels and devils, an Afghan mystic tells us why he became one, a riposte to Scott's 'Breathes there a man with soul so dead', taking the side of the man with a dead soul, the English language, a lesson on Italain viticulture, and another on Italian anatomy amongst others.