This is the first full poetry collection from a poet born in Northern Ireland. Many of the poems are about her feelings of exile from Ireland, about her family and her childhood on the Antrim coast. She was a prizewinner in the 1998 Arvon Poetry Competition.
Anne Marie Fyfe was born in Ireland and now lives in West London. A poet, Creative Writing tutor, arts organiser (of the well-known Troubadour club events in London), she was recently Chair of the Poetry Society. She has read throughout the world at festivals and events and on BBC radio and television.