Carl Walsh’s ‘Tarp Green Light’ is a first collection of poems that traverses a topography of history, memory, family and loss. Across four chapters, the poems navigate through lifetimes and landscapes. Rain falls and muddies the Yarra or swells rivers in Papua New Guinea. Seas bear Viking longships or rise as ice caps melt. Magpies chorus from childhood or a statue of Pan in Italy awakes. Children sleep in a bed their grandfather made and a Japanese castle leaps at sky – in poems that move between travelogue, autobiography and imagination.