Splitting Off Product Form:Paperback / softback In a house on the

In a house on the fringes of the decimated hamlet

these familiar scenes are shot through with darker moments of raw violence and fear

Publication Date: 22/05/2008

of that fleet of ghost-planes lifted

Splitting Off Product Form:Paperback / softback In a house on theDescription Triny Finlay's debut collection of poetry is a meditation on the self's negotiation with the material world. Finlay pushes poetic form and language, creating images of love and loss that are at once playful and profoundly disturbing. The poems in this collection are rife with metaphorical leaps and unexpected associations: the troubled self as conjoined twins or as a flatiron building; the predatory lover as axe wielding gardener; coming