A businessman distracted by a road sign goes walking in Huntingdonshire - military bases wind turbines and ancient woodland. Trees talk to him in verse. He travels in time to a transformatory encounter with Nicholas Ferrar in Little Gidding. An unnamed traveller is distracted from his business trip by a sign To the Giddings . He sets off walking through the Huntingdonshire landscape with its Civil War associations and modern military bases past wind turbines and fragments of ancient woodland the trees providing a commentary in a variety of verse forms - lyrical sardonic admonitory. But it turns out that he is also walking through time and after a powerful encounter with Nicholas Ferrar in 17th-century Little Gidding towards a mysterious metamorphosis. In the tradition of The Pilgrim s Progress and owing something to Ted Hughes s Gaudete this ingenious and musical interweaving of verse and prose continues John Greening s earlier series of long dream poems . Composed before the pandemic The Giddings still tells a highly relevant story about a search for spiritual meaning and the power of nature in dark times.