Esther Morgan's fourth poetry collection draws on her own family history in a very personal exploration of the First World War. It was written during the centenary of that conflict. The Wound Register, or Casualty Book, recorded the casualty and sickness details for more than fifteen thousand soldiers of the Norfolk Regiment during the First World War.  Esther Morgan’s great-grandfather was killed at the Somme, and in a sequence written to her grandmother, she considers the trauma of losing a father in combat.  Other poems in the collection address her own experience of coming late to motherhood.