The poems are arranged in five sections. The poet is STANDING AT THE EDGE before a beach, a grave, a river in flood, a Pennine landscape. Through WAYS AND MEANS he journeys through a museum, down a street in Krakow, along a gravel path in Umbria. In CITY BREAKS witnesses street riots, a spinning mill on the cusp, urban regeneration. Watches lives and nature UNRAVELLING under the stress of a pandemic and climate change. In SHADOW PLAY he sees himself as child, parent, brother and son.