Author Description

"The second of two volumes re-tracing Nick's back catalogue, Strange Country incorporates work originally circulated via the Hedgehog House imprint along with material not hitherto released. Varied in theme and style, it combines appreciation of the natural world with an awareness of the harshness that operates there and, at times, in human relations. Questioning - contradictory, even - the poems within it engage with some of the less than comfortable implications, alternately, of the gospel story and the theory of evolution while, like the small giraffe of one sequence, they reach for truth amongst the giddy heights that/beckon and evade-- Publisher's website.