Linda France's seventh full-length collection is concerned with the dulaities of our inner and outer worlds - the seeming paradoxes of self and society, language and experiment, ideal and reality. At the heart of the book is a section look at Nature and Cultivation through the life and work of the landscape gardner Capability Brown.

HER - Dying in My Sleep / 11, Yes / 12, Waiting with My Yellow Dog / 13, After / 15, You Don't Know What Love Is / 16, Thundertown / 17, 38 Poems She Never Wrote / 18, What the Beam Said / 19, The Break / 20, Vertebra / 21, Frida Kahlo's Corset / 23, Knitbone / 24, The Burning House / 25, The Goose and the Bottle / 26, Moonshine / 27, Corona / 28, What Love is Like in Winter / 29, The Change / 30, Cave Painting / 31, Reconstruction / 32, The Love Potion of Polemios / 33 Burdened Children / 35, Falling / 36, Stagshaw Fair / 37, Sorrow / 38 YOU - Biography / 41, Birthplace / 42, Capability / 43, The Line of Beauty / 44, Brownification / 45, Nature Lessons / 46, Health & Plenty / 47, Cascade / 48, Psyche Leans Towards Love / 49, Three Looks at a Lake / 50, On Going to a Lecture on Capability Brown called 'Copying Nature' / 51, Last Day / 52 HERE - Joy / 55, Gulls / 56, Two Rivers / 57, Wildling / 60, Sadness as Billy's Leeks Fail to Win Posthumous Prize / 61, My Mother's Leek Pudding / 62, Weathervane / 63, Tara / 64, Borrowing a Grandmother / 65, From The Life Cycle of the Dragonfly / 66, Two Sightings / 67 You are Her / 68, No Subject / 69, Bowl / 70, New Planet / 71, Two Nudes / 72, The Somethingosphere / 73, Mrs Fooner is Spifty / 74, The French Postman / 76, The Sound of Snipe / 77, Your Hands and the House Martin / 79, The Peregrine and the Moon / 80, On Not Going to Kyoto / 81, On the Sele / 82, Heartwood / 84, Kingfisher / 85, Jizz / 86 Biographical Note / 90