This collection brings together work from 1990-1995, the poems which Karen Press regards as "exploratory tools along two axes of what it means to have a home". The axes are time and space; Press draws on the history of a particular place at a particular time.
This is the poet's first book to be published outside South Africa. She brings together work from 1990-5, the poems she regards as 'exploratory tools along two axes of what it means to have a home'.