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Like the painter on his bike in the title poem, balancing a portrait of his father, the poet Enda 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.

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Enda Wyley is a poet and a fiction writer born in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. She has published five collections of poetry – from her debut Eating Baby Jesus (1993) through to Borrowed Space, New and Selected Poems (2014). Her poetry has been widely anthologised, including in The Harvard Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. She was the inaugural winner of the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, Australia, and was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship for her poetry. She is a member of Aosdána.

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