Conveying a deep sense of place, Rowse's poems frequntly take as thier points of departure scenes from the thrree very different environments in which his life has been lived - Oxford, Cornwall and America. In this new volume the emphasis shfits mainly to America. One of the very few English poets writing of the New World, he brings freshness of perception to America's present, together with an awareness of 'the bones of original America' showing through. In the poems of Cornwall which follow, the poet returns home. They evoke the savour of a sea-haunted land, the life that springs from it, and the poet's rootedness there.