Chrys Salt’s poems, not least the familial ones, have a wonderful vitality, warmth and immediacy, those threaded with elegy imbued with humour as well as humanity. They are also a perfect prelude to the celebratory sequence ‘Weaver of Grass’ which portrays Angus MacPhee with such empathy and descriptive richness as to conjure up his interior and exterior realities both astonishingly and movingly.’