in the book is also the most ambitious--those poems that allow [Emma] Jones time and space to develop her ideas, and which make use of a specific historical moment or situation, something solid for her imagination to work upon, such as the library-sailboat in "Citizenship". In two movements, "Zoos for the Living" describes the "drowned town of Adimanaby" in New South Wales, which was dismantled and shifted uphill in 1957, "in convoys, brick by brick,/like that agile forest in Macbeth", so its valley could be dammed and flooded for a hydro-electric scheme.from The Guardian: And a wind carries birds
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