Most of the fifty two poems in this book describe encounters with animals, some of them birds of prey. But there are other encounters too - with plant, stone, tree, landscape, dragon, centaur… All of these phenomena are outside the author's human reckoning and way of being, but are as vitally a part of his world and cosmos as the human. And in each case, his concern is less the object in view than the relationship between them in operation, however momentary and fragile.

The poems were written over several decades and are set out chronologically. The book is wonderfully illustrated by members of a mental health arts project based in London and run by Mind. The drawings do more than just represent the artists' responses to the poems and to what they evoked: they succeed in furthering the statement the poems are making.

Here are two comments on the book : “Rogan’s poetry is as beautiful as it is thought-provoking.”
(Dr Peter Carter OBE, Chief Executive, Royal College of Nursing 2007-2015).

“This is an uplifting, as well as a consoling book. I feel very honoured to have been invited to comment on it.” (Moniza Alvi - Poet).