Orlam reveals PJ Harvey as not only one of the most talented songwriters of the age, but a gifted poet--whose formal skill and transforming eye and ear for the lyric line has produced a strange and moving poem like no other. Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of UNDERWHELEM. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira's sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb's eyeball who is Ira-Abel's guardian and protector.
