Publisher's Synopsis
A wide-ranging second full collection to follow "A Voyage Round the Moon" (Peterloo, 1985), this opens with a poem about the discovery of unidentified aliens in New Mexico in 1947 and ends with a sequence of 11 poems written in an invented language. Elsewhere, Gohorry celebrates tall stories, Thomas Hobbes, Acker Bilk and the Marine Aquarium, Penzance.;This collection is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.