In this volume of new poems, the author follows the trail of his previous collection titled The Country Without a Post Office in order to excavate the devastation wrought upon Kashmir, his childhood home. The poet links a more personal devastation to the destiny of his homeland: his mother’s death and the journey with her body back to Kashmir. Binding these poems is a virtuoso use of traditional poetic forms: sonnets, canzones, ghazals, terza rima, Sapphics, and free verse. Into these moulds he manages to pour a conversational ease, creating the wonderful mix of the formal and the colloquial which has been recognised as his distinctive contribution to English verse.