Nominated for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award

A poetic travelogue through Britain, India and East Africa, this collection is a personal journey through cultural identity, influence and history. It is an exploration of both longing and belonging as it retraces the migrations of three generations. These poems create a space for themselves by drawing on many traditions, both eastern and western. Stylistically concise, yet accessible, the poems use the precision of language to intimately redescribe and redefine a diasporatic postcolonial world. Whether set in Canada or Britain, India, or East Africa, each poem explores the perspective of the intimate outsider.