The second poetry collection by Mary Ford Neal, an academic and poet from the West of Scotland, Relativism is a series of poems that deal with themes of attachment, belonging, certainty, doubt, and relationship (to places, times, people, and ideas).

Relativism, the second poetry collection by Mary Ford Neal, a writer and academic from the West of Scotland, deals with themes of attachment, belonging, certainty, doubt, and our relationships to places, times, people, and ideas. Using different voices, and the lens of intimate relationships, the collection explores various stages of life (from youth to adulthood to older age) and states of self-knowledge (from confusion to enlightenment to doubt).