Now is a fast and frenzied meditation on time, ageing, alienation, and the pressures of living in the modern city. Each triplet in this book-length poetry sequence addresses the question: What is "now?" With the brevity of a proverb, each three-liner offers a short, sharp perception which tries to capture or just grasp at the sliding identities of 'now', at the same time as it adds its quickfire nugget of wit or wisdom to the accumulating weight of the whole sequence. By the end of the book, Kennelly has taken us on a journey not just through time but through his own head and the thoughts and feelings of all kinds of people struggling to survive and find meaning in their lives.