Many of these poems reflect life in Orkney, where he spends part of every year. New Zealand, Glencoe winter climbing, Padua and Glasgow also feature, as do Jimmy Shand, Kandinsky and Val McDiarmid's tropical shirt. Like his widely enjoyed memoir At the Loch of the Green Corrie, these poems celebrate places of awakening, friends living and dead, and embrace life lived later in the day. It is a poetry of celebration, of loss honoured, and above all of gratitude.