IF, AS Farley and Roberts suggest — based on research by an American academic — that being a published poet is more dangerous than being a deep sea diver, then the premise of this book is self evident: Not alone should poets be uninsurable, but their company should be avoided at all costs.

Convinced that “language and death converge with particular power in poets”, two awardwinning versifiers traverse the globe looking up the places where other poets died.

A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet