Snapshot reconstructions of life on Scotland's remote St. Kilda Island - ancestral home of McQueens - open this tenth collection of poetry from Cilla McQueen. The spare life in this place of birds and sea and weather leads into a new set of poems from the poet's Bluff home: quiet observations in friends and animals, memories dreams - and weather. In a final section, 'A widow's songs' the poet mourns her late partner.