and shaped our islands through time
The poem now cuts to London during the Blitz where a small girl – the poet’s mother – slips away from parents  and walks off into a bombed city
she explores how these histories intertwine and influence her childhood memories and the retelling of her family’s stories
myths and wildlife return to him in Noctuary
a seal swims in the Clyde
Somewhere Else Entirely by Ruth Fainlight Jenny Lewis and shaped our islands throughRuth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966, and her retrospective, New & Collected Poems, in 2010. Her poems 'give us truly new visions of usual and mysterious events' (A. S. Byatt). Each is a balancing act between thought and feeling, revealing otherness within the everyday, often measuring subtle shifts in