In these short poems full of patient listening, looking, and responding, Eamon Grennan again presents a world of brilliantly excavated moments.

Whether watching a flight of oystercatchers off a Connemara strand, or the laden stall of a fish market in Manhattan; whether listening to the silence in an empty room, or the beat of his partner's heart; whether pondering violence in the Middle East, or the tenuous, endangered nature of even 'the fairest / order in the world' - his implicitly philosophic gaze manages to allow the ordinary facts of life take on their own luminous, celebratory, elegiac glow.