These poems celebrate the South Wales valleys culture Steve grew up and the people who taught him what he knows of love. He explores the predicament of those who feel culturally alienated and who must, while preserving what they value, learn to live and work under quite different conditions. Seeing an early draft of these poems, Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney wrote 'Clearly you have a story to tell' and Jan Morris, the celebrated Welsh essayist and travel-writer praised the poems as 'beautiful'.