Book excerpt: The secret frontiers of these poems extend between the fantastic images of people from remote cultures and the indigenous poet in a shared quarter of the city; the glimpsed frontiers between the pasts and presents of places; the virtual boundaries between scenes from across the world and their instant arrival as news. They are even found here between championship football and its archetypal roots. Thus the secret frontiers cross the endless zones of transformation between external world and the interior landscapes that make poetry.