Sarah Tiffen's second collection continues to probe the spiritual and social themes revealed in her first book, Learning Country: Song Cycles from the Heartland. Stories of her home country, in the western plains of New South Wales, reveal a powerful response to place and a visceral sense of nostalgia, landscape and love. With story-poems, nature poems and spiritual explorations, this collection will speak to the reader of Australia, of a passing way of life, of family and history, and of the notions of home, time and loss and spirituality. Representing a development of the writer's craft, there is much in this volume to compel, challenge and uplift, as the reader will again take a journey into the heart, and share the love of language and of the country in evocative imagery.