This is the thirteenth collection from senior US and Irish poet Knute Skinner.

In the early 1990s, in his volume The Bears And Other Poems, Knute Skinner embarked on an extraordinary poetic project – the elaboration of short poetic fictions. In the intervening years he has become a master of this charged and compelling form.

Taut lyric-narratives that affect a wry, rueful tone only to draw the reader toward the brink of some considerable existential, even metaphysical gravitas. Born and educated in the US, Knute Skinner has lived in Ireland since the 1960s.

This book collects fifty years of published work, beginning with poems that first saw serial publication in 1957 and continuing through thirteen books.