In a single volume, Oliver Andrew presents us with the full range of his brave and witty poetry. These poems stimulate and excite with their seemingly effortless command of the English language - its wealth of inflections, its rhythms and metaphor, and of course its vocabulary. These poems offer a rich trawl of life's experience, impossible in an early work. They are the musings of a considerable poet whose work has hitherto lain scattered throughout the poetic literature, in magazines such as Envoi, Iota, Orbis and Pennine Platform.