Most of these poems were written during the winter of January, February, March 1958. A few of them first appeared in The Voice of Scotland. The cover design is by Peter Hollander.
Margaret Caroline Tait (1918 - 1999) was a Scottish filmmaker and writer.
She was the daughter of Mary Isbister and Charles Tait, an agricultural merchant.
She studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1941, and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) from 1943 to 1946, spending time in India, Sri Lanka and Malaya. During this time she developed an interest in photography.
Some of her film titles are The Lion, the Griffin and the Kangaoo (1952), Where I am is Here 1964), Land Makar (1981), and Garden Pieces (1998). She directed only one full length feature film, Blue Black Permanent, in 1993, based on a screenplay she started to write in the 1940s.