Stephen Smith’s fabulous relatives are both real and mythologised: his Ulster Protestant forebears slip back into tribal history as even more phantasmagorical characters emerge from the murk of legend, dream and fantasy to haunt him in the present. His book also includes poems from a year spent in Japan in close proximity to even stranger cultural models – poems which try to draw love and understanding from a country which is alienated from itself as well as from its past.
- ISBN13 9781852242138
- Publish Date 24 June 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 January 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English