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Nevermore is an elegy for lost times and threatened things. It celebrates recollection and the "immortality of youth", and youth's passions: for natural history for the naive curiosity and lust of adolescent "love", for adventuresome escape, and for the elusive prize of poetry itself.

Rebecca Elson's knowledge of astronomy is combined with autobiographical detail here in an exploration of time, space, evolution and her approaching death.