In The Final Hike Rod Grant draws on his long and varied experience to explore nature, life and death and the fate of man in his lyrical and movingstyle. In his poem The Final Hike from which the title of the book is taken, he describes the last of his annual April 5 pilgrimages to the DungenessSpit.

In the Soul at Bay he draws on his early work to describe the anguish of a young man facing the challenges of life and his own frailties in powerfuland insightful verse.

Rod Grant uses the magic of words to capture images, ideas and emotions drawn from his long and varied experience. His lyrical poems deal with love, destiny, despair and hope -- the full range of the human condition. The poems are brief and to the point, and were written to be reread and remembered.