This is Thomas Kinsella's first book of poems since 1988, and it collects together the contents of five private publications from his Peppercanister Press in Dublin. Following the poems of family and social history in Blood and Family , the new book continues with a body of personal poetry from the poet's home places in the city. There are two longer poems: the book opens with 'One Fond Embrace' , a private personal accounting, and closes with 'Open Court' , set in one of the crowded literary scences in Dublin's recent past. There are too the first short poems from Kinsella's new home in County Wicklow. This book is intended for poetry market, especially in USA and Ireland (N & S).