Subhadassi is a practising Buddhist and there is a compassion, honesty, humour, tenderness and sensuousness about his poetry which makes it both eminently readable and strikingly memorable. This is his first full-length collection and it abounds in exquisitely-drawn images in which family, friends, memories, history, and real and imagined landscapes come into sharp focus. In kathleen Jamie's words, this is "a street-wise and sensual, mature and generous debut"