Jane Griffiths’s second collection re-imagines lives. Her poems are populated by people ranging from the invented to the mythological to the wholly real. Somewhere in between, the title-sequence recreates the life of Icarus as it might have been had he been born in modern suburban England. Through the voices of his father, his mother, his mildly inept biographer, and the girl-next-door, it explores the gap between desire and reality, and the consequences of trying to get across it.

This title is now out of print, but most of this collection can be found in Another Country: Selected Poems (2008).  See: http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852247940