This new collection from Graham Bowers is characteristically eclectic in its range of subjects and technique, at the same time as it speaks with a clearly personal voice deriving from the poet's commitment to the craft and careful attention to musicality, the moments of humour, and the clear desire to welcome the reader into the text, to provide an open interface. One of the concerns running through the book is the navigational challenges we are presented with by the dynamics and uncertainties generated by the frontiers and fault-lines which cross-cut our lives, at every level from the personal and private to the international.