Walking the Animals

Plot

The dark skies of the Yorkshire Pennines and the heat of the South African lowlands are brought together in these masterpieces from a transitional poet. Journeys between disparate worlds—between north and south, earth and air, safety and danger, fantasy and fact—traverse poetic landscapes of loss and longing. Dislocations and what flows from them, how the strange emerges into familiarity, and how strangers, in time, become known provide the thematic backdrops for this poet's exploration of place and movement.