A collection that captures poignant memories and persistent histories from a celebrated poet of Northern IrelandIn his first collection for more than a decade, Tom Paulin contemplates the past and present with as much uncertainty as we might the future. He revisits themes such as the Second World War and the Irish Peace Process with characteristic vigilance and a powerful new slant. These poems build out of both personal and broader displacement as the poet confronts an erosion of confidence in himself as well as in history and its narratives.

In his first collection for a decade, Paulin writes frankly of depression and frailty while resisting both consolation and despair.