In this first volume of autobiography chronicling the struggle to defy the limitations of isolation and increasing physical handicap, Clemo writes how paganism and piety are two of the elements which made him a poet, and how faith and optimism have triumphed over all. The poet was the recipient of the Atlantic Prize, 1948 for Wilding Graft. Other works include The Invading Gospel, The Shadowed Bed, A Different Drummer and Selected Poems.