GILLIAN CLARKE:So the lake remembers, as places do and you remember so a whole place is full of my childhood and there's no richer place to look for poems, than your childhood. AKALA:'Can we ever ...

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war. by ...

The book is a ballad of appreciation for the lake and all of the many ways that its relationship to our state is symbiotic.