ISBN 1904211054
Edinburgh: Essence Press, 2005

Square hand-bound pamphlet
150 mm x 150 mm
30 pages of poems

Cover papers are made in India from recycled cotton fibre, waste material from the clothing industry, with grass seeds and hemp then added to base paper. For every copy sold a donation will be made to Assynt Foundation.

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a raven swings and rolls
crooning craw-croo

soaring between layers

of light and flow

all we need to know

the old man says

is how to be rahayu

grateful for this moment

for silver clouds in the relentless sky

and this black wheeling curve of bird

'The effect is of high simplicity, the book an object you want to touch... Your eye follows the words, waits in the spaces... Sensation and meaning develop across the pages. It feels like music, perhaps like meditation. It's as if subliminal sound inhabits the spaces. The language of the lines is spare, concrete. Its beauty comes not from ornament but from structure. One is reminded of minimalist music... Except that in these poems there are several examples which are intensely expressive and allusive. ...the reader will find a purity of line and language that gladdens the spirit.'

from the review in Northwords Now (Nov 2005)

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