From airbowing in second violins to climbing 6000-metre mountains to playing poker with nuclear physicists, Caoilinn Hughes finds poems in unexpected places and situations. After gaining BA and MA degrees from the Queen's University of Belfast, she moved to New Zealand. Following some years working for Google, running a small business and writing novels at the weekends, she enrolled to study for a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington. Hughes won the 2012 Patrick Kavanagh Award with a selection of the poems included in this book, and poems from the collection also won the 2013 Cuirt New Writing Prize, the 2012 STA Travel Writing Prize and the 2013 Trocaire/Poetry Ireland Competition.