Stuart Eglin’s new collection of poems begins with a song, from the second album by American band Television, called “The Fire” and from that point of influence the poems shoot off into politics, emotion, unrest and love. Moving on from the collection about “Blue”, a misanthropic figure who glowered through that collection of poems, this book has a set of resonant poems, each opening into worlds that declare the harrowed world in which we live. ‘There’s a stillness that the poetry inhabits. I don’t quite know how to describe it and I certainly don’t know how you do it, but whatever it is, it works. I’m tempted to say, “I like it because…” Even the moments of conflict have their foundations in peace, in wisdom, so there’s deep hum of the ground and the crackle of life above it, and it’s that dualism that I love. It’s clean on the page, in thought and in look, all that snow that surrounds it, on the white page. And it’s intimate. Everything you want from a poem.’ – Rob Young, Writer.