Juniper by Sean O'Brien Robert MacFarlane With themes ranging from the

With themes ranging from the sense of home and racialised expectations

At the centre of the book is the long poem Hammersmith

the first-person plural

Back and forth

Juniper by Sean O'Brien Robert MacFarlane With themes ranging from theThese are poems of journey and movement, of arrivals and departures, greetings and farewells. Soldiers come home from war, old friends are parted. The only stillness is death. The human past is etched into the natural landscape as the living watch and listen to the continuously changing moment they find themselves in, which in turn is pressed into history by the relentless insistence of time:"there was before, there will be after, no half measures."