'A lyric poet to compare with James Fenton'                                                                                                                      — Anne Stevenson

Harry Clifton's fifth collection of poems continues the theme of travel explored in his earlier books, seen, now, in the context of a developing love relationship.

The first part is a personal sequence set in the Abruzzo mountains of central Italy, where the poet and his wife lived for a year.

The second part looks north again, at a changing Europe, in a renewed engagement with history.