John Hilton's most satisfying and quietly powerful collection to date. This volume consist almost entirely of recently written poems. There are a couple of short poems written eight and sixteen years ago respectively, which I found up in my archives and liked enough to preserve here. The heart of the book is the lengthy 'Broken Glass and Other Pain Killers' which is in the fractured narrative style I developed during the long gestation of 'In the Shadow of the Silver Screen'. It is an adult poem in that it deals with serious themes. I do not write these poems for children.