Publisher's Synopsis
This work is essentially a poetic diary of Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano: its eruption in 1995; the trauma of evacuation and catastrophe which followed; and the tentative return, three years later, of Montserration people to what had once been homes, then exclusion zones. Howard A. Fergus captures the awesome beauty and terror of ash plumes soiling the sky, and the inferno that killed.;Occasional pieces portray pre-eruption scences of an everyday life changed forever by the volcano.
