The theme of echoes and echo-hunting runs through Paterson's new collection， particularly in poems that mourn the poet's father。 Elsewhere， Echoism - the syndrome that some say complements narcissism - features poems about men and women， polemical responses to the pandemic， odes to dogs， movies and the male anatomy， and country songs。 The collection includes a masterly series of translations into Scots from the Cuban poet Gabriela Mistral， and part four of Paterson's ongoing long poem 'The Alexandrian Library'， which describes the hunt for a phone signal in a world on the cusp of man-made extinction。 These are poems for and of our times by one of our most celebrated and formally exciting poets。