Yvonne Green's latest collection extends the urgent and compelling territory of her earlier, award-winning books. Politically engaged, many of the poems consider the human cost of war, while others deal equally intensely both with ideas and with domestic and city landscapes. A final section furthers the translations from Russian she began in 2011 with her PBS Recommended title, After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin.

Yvonne Green, born 1957 in London to a multi-lingual Asian family, practised law, and then published her first collection, Boukhara, winner of the 2007 Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition. Her second, The Assay, was also published in Ivrit by Am Oved as Hanisoo-yi, having won funds for translation from Celia Atkin and Lady Gavron. Her third, After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin, was the Winter 2011 Poetry Book Society's Translation Choice. Her fourth, Honoured, was Winter 2015 Poetry Book Society Recommendation.