"The incidents in this collection range from childhood experiences and family events through glimpses of steet life in Thatcher's Britain to deaths and premonitions of death, individual and universal, under the shadow of the nuclear threat. There is a group of fictional narratives, and a handful of the erotic, or, more properly, anti-erotic poems for which ... Adcock is well-known. There are also celebrations of places, reflections on art and language, and affectionate tributes to friends."--Back cover.