"Ian Brown’s poems take us on memorable journeys into the past and across the globe, while being rooted firmly in today’s Scotland. They have the timeless quality that comes with their compelling intimacy and artistic integrity. This collection is like a familiar birdsong one hears when lost in a deep forest, which reaffirms the compassion and joy, love and longing that make our ‘work-worn life’ meaningful."- Bashabi Fraser

"There is a long journey contained in this collection. Ian Brown has travelled far in geographical terms, but in these poems he keeps returning home. Not that this is straightforward: there are diversions of language (Scots, Gaelic, English, Italian and others), memories both painful and kind, jokes, asides and deeper reflections; and he recognises that the span of history overarches any single life’s path. Most of all one takes from these pages a sustained wonder at being human, at being here at all: ‘the weave of space and time is full of folk’". - James Robertson