PUSHING FROM THE RIVERBANK
Alan Finlay
Dye Hard Press
Whether a boy talking to his mother, the husband watching his breastfeeding wife, or the man soothing a son in the small hours, the narrator probes and measures the supreme vulnerability of the modern family unit.
In stark musical language, Finlay peels back memories and unpicks the present, displaying his own intense yearning for something just beyond reach. This observation of the homesickness some suffer while at home is beautifully resonant. The poems get under your skin. - Liesl Jobson