This outstanding second collection explores the lives of errant women and creatures who refuse to adhere to official paths, and the liminal, boundary-crossing wildscapes of the land and heart.

These tender, lyrical, daring poems learn from the natural world, through immersion and observation, to find new ways to reflect and adapt, as they celebrate the ways our beings and bodies are inextricably entangled with the ever-changing landscapes and heartscapes of the dark woods, glittering rivers, windswept moors and towering mountains.

Emily Zobel Marshall spent her childhood in a remote village in the mountains of Snowdonia in North Wales with her Black Caribbean mother and white English father. She is a Reader in Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University, and specialises in Caribbean literature and Caribbean carnival cultures. As well as poetry, she has published two non-fiction books, Anansi's Journey (University of the West Indies Press), and American Trickster: Trauma Tradition and Brer Rabbit (Rowman and Littlefield).