This new prose poetry sequence from Paul Hetherington explores the power of memory and the hauntings of childhood. It takes the reader on a sensuous and richly imagistic journey into expansive ideas of self and identity. It probes and questions the nature of recollection, and how the role of the father and mother may be understood, drawing on a number of existing literary works to create elaborately poetic and deeply satisfying verbal textures.

Paul Hetherington is a distinguished poet and Professor Emeritus at the University of Canberra, Australia. Among his 45 creative and critical books and chapbooks, and numerous scholarly chapters and articles, he has previously published 17 full-length collections of poetry.