I'd have called it a 'flitting'
but it was a year before I was born -
to my father it was 'moving house'.
He was Ma's envoy in Scotland:
he'd just chosen a field
that would grow into a bungalow

                           From 'Hinges'

Greenfields shows how it was, to grow up in a quiet corner of Scotland, fixing the last decades of the twentieth century in its snapshots. The book reclaims suburbia as a place of unexpected poetry and conjures the bittersweet of such hybrid places. Those modern places are superimposed upon much older contours: Price elegises the ancient landscape of Renfrewshire. Geological, dynastic, family, and lovers' time are set against the rapacious speed of modernity.

Like Lucky Day, Price's acclaimed Carcanet collection, Greenfields is alert to the nuances of family relationships. New here are delicate love poems and uncanny evocations of a child's developing perception of friends, siblings and parents. In 'Tube Shelter Perspective', the sequence that binds together many of his concerns, Price demonstrates that he is a writer, in the words of John Kinsella, who 'has given late modernism an injection of humanity it has long required