From Lenin Park, Hanoi, to the Humber, from wars near or remote in space in time, these poems come with their news of aftermath, and of the worlds which survive and recrudesce after the sky has fallen. These poems are touched by death, but more stubbornly by life. They are ordered in progression from shared to private history and out again; from foreign and exotic to familiar, domestic landscapes and out again to the world, the voice informed by the specifics of place. They conclude with "A Short Story", a long poem that extends the narrative line that runs though Brackenbury's work from her first book.
- ISBN10 1857544544
- ISBN13 9781857544541
- Publish Date 24 February 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 August 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 80
- Language English