Images in words: only history exists

This volume of William Mallinson's poetry and prose, and a small amount of writings by some family members, is a vehicle to demonstrate that only history - in its purest form, the past - exists.

Bowing to Oscar Wilde's dictum that most people are other people (even if they do not know it), its comments on each poem, article or story lead to the book's conclusion that the present cannot exist, since it becomes the past as it happens, while the future is only in the mind.

Many of the poems and stories were written on impulse, inspired by various events, but also, subliminally, by writers and poets such as Henry Williamson, Ted Hughes, and George Orwell.