This long poem in 10-line stanzas is named after a small limestone village in the north Staffordshire Peak District. It is a poem about passage, transformation, and the resources of the imagination in quest of a sense of justice. Divided into five sections, the poem's first four sections are short poetical meditations on place and landscape, memory, and imagination in a humanized enclosure. The much longer fifth section brushes with philosophical, political, and other human discourses.
- ISBN13 9781857546484
- Publish Date 11 December 2003 (first published 9 October 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 October 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144
- Language English