" ... done at the time of Halley's Comet coming to England ... I found a Christmas cracker and opened it and found a little thing like an articulated hat rack. It was a horse that you could open and shut. I thought, I'm going to do a book about this. Halley's Comet, the horse, and this poem in my mind that is the poem in the book. I cut out a zinc horse in its different attitudes, opened and shut, and moved it around the given firmament and made a big plate of stars, deciding to make the stars at regular grid intervals, drilled in. Just a nice bit of mechanical engineering all round ... In very airily spaced capital wood letters about an inch high is the pursuance of the poetry going from one left-hand page to the following left-hand page. On the right-hand side is a big blue firmament of graded colour with yellow printed underneath, so sometimes the stars are white and sometimes yellow to give a very mechanical but beautiful rendition of the sky in mechanically spaced, regularly spaced starts. Over which disports a horse in black, almost as a metaphor for the comet, almost as a metaphor for the divine child descending, which in many ways the poem is about."--Ken Campbell, from The word returned.