Paperback edition of this winner of both the 1999 }Whitbread Book Of The Year Award{, and the South Bank Show Literature Award. Having sold over 75,000 copies, the hardback edition was the most successful poetry hardback since }Birthday Letters{.
"An extraordinary piece of writing...this was a master poet breathing life into a great work of art which has only been known to a small number of academics" Eric Anderson, chairman of the }Whitbread Book Of The Year Award{.