Each page depicts a sailing ship and a caption with its name designated for a poet, namely MacBeth, Lucie-Smith, McCarthy, Finlay, and Cobbing. The caption is a tongue-in- cheek characterization of the poet's work or performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The broadside is a prospectus for the book. It states that the sequence of the 10 poems in this book were based upon rare emblems in a 16th century emblem book. Emblem poems are pictures with related poetic captions and are classified in this database as Picture Poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.