Jane Walters was born in India in 1943 and has lived in Suffolk since she was 15, when her father retired from tea planting in Kerala.

In 2000, a chance invitation sparked a long connection with West Africa, its music and its people. She now plays the Senegalese Sabar drums and the Kora.

Her creativity is also expressed in her glass and jewellery, which she has photographed and forms background images for the book and this website.

Jane has always had an awareness of a wider reality beyond the constraints of our physical life. This awareness is beautifully expressed in this collection of verses which resonate with our deepest sense of who we are and our connectedness.