“Through the songs that nature sings to her, Belinda Raitt uncovers her philosophy of life

and shares this with us in her poems. This collection of poetry gathers together all the

poems she has written since she has found her home among the olive trees in rural

Central Portugal. In the two volumes, she takes her readers on a dance of discovery

through love, life, nature, shadow and back to the light, challenging us to face up to the

darker sides of life too, to recognise that it’s from dancing with the shadows, rather than

avoiding them, that makes them lighter and sets us free to transform into who we are

meant to be.”