White Tulip is a garland for the flames, a sequence of memoirs in
verse for distinguished family and friends, including the pianist
Geraldine Swingler, the historians and peace-campaigners Edward and
Dorothy Thompson, and the author's uncle Frank, executed while fighting
with the Bulgarian Partisans in 1944. China, Ireland, Litakovo, Haworth
and Thermopylae - White Tulip is a book about love and loss, the
living and the dead, History and memory, and the sudden illuminations
that force themselves up through the cracks in the pavement.