A Valley to Traverse is the third poetry collection by Paul H Simmons, his previous publications being A Construction in Space (2013) and The Look of Beauty (2015).
It comprises 52 poems, and the thoughts which give rise to them emanate from personal experiences and imagination, coloured at times by a sense of well being and pleasure in simple things and their significance, or at others by melancholy in the present, regret for the past, and the hope of a better future.