Written over 12 months, from 23 September 2006 to 14 September 2007, Carol Watts' sequence of poems explores the freight of a year with an ear to its future. Fragments and "cuts" of time and memory, light, sound, weather, the voices of children. John Clare wandering among rinds of a shoe-making village and city parakeets. Small series, detonating. The working through of an occasional tense, its cost, its serious music, its gift. This is Carol Watts' second poetry collection for Reality Street, the first having been "Wrack" (2007).