A retrospective selection of poems by Governor General's Awardwinning poet Stephen Scobie. Arranged in chronological order from 1965 right up to the end of 2001, the poems in this collection concentrate on the traditional lyric form, with standalone short poems. The book includes representative selections from all of Scobie's collections of lyric poems, as well as a significant number of poems that have not been published or have appeared only in limited distribution.