Enda Wyley Bücher

Borrowed Space celebrates twenty-one years of Irish poet Enda Wyley's poems. In his introduction to this selection, James L. Pethica writes: "It offers us both a retrospective - a compressed and intensified accounting of Wyley's accomplishment to date - and, in the new poems, the forward-looking soundings and negotiations of a writer whose sense of the possibilities of poetry remains vital and immediate." The cumulative effect is one of energy, imagination and heart - and a quiet determination to, in the poet's own words, "write for the page within." "'New and Selected' seems the perfectly suited appellation for the work on offer here. Ms. Wyley's poems are perpetually fresh, utterly scrutinised, marked by vigour and virtuosity, arriving on the page as accomplished things, like settled law, fit for the long haul language calls us to.' - Thomas Lynch

The fourth collection by Irish poet Wyley showcases her unique perspective on contemporary life through a series of poems that explore a wide range of subjects. With a keen focus on the "inner eye," her work invites readers to engage with the depth and richness of modern experiences, as highlighted by the "Poetry Ireland Review."

The third collection by a very popular poet, one of Ireland's younger generation of women poets making her mark. Lyrical and imaginative, these are poems of memory, war, books, place, travel, and love, written with fine sensibility. Wyley's originality and strength lie in the immediacy and intimacy of love poems that achieve an overall credibility and universality. The poetry is experimental, hovering between a dream world and the real. She won the Vincent Buckley Memorial Award in 1996.

Like the painter on his bike in the title poem, balancing a portrait of his father, the poetEnda Wyley in her new collection seeks a balancing of art and experience with honesty, skill and heart. Here are poems whose explicit wish is for the safe passage of others, for gatherings and regatherings, for the chance to wake again to a hall / of light, for life to go on beyond this moment /and yet because of this moment. Here are family memories and thoughts of the future, elegies for friends and fellow writers and love poems to husband and daughter; and, throughout, the fragile present moment somehow carefully balanced at the heart of it all.

Chang-ming has been picked for the school team but his family will be in China, visiting his grandma when the big match is being played.