Jane Routh manages woodlands and a flock of geese in North Lancashire, where she's lived for quarter of a century. Several poems in this new collection spring from an awareness of how landscape and its history and hauntings shape the way we live in it. She looks beyond the map of the valley she knows intimately, revealing the order it imposes is illusory. Her maps and charts release islands and seascapes, fells and fens, ancestors both real and inherited, boatbuilders, fruit growers and the odd saint; her poems offer a different kind of mapmaking, making a different kind of sense.