Borrowed Space: New and Selected Poems

by Enda Wyley, James L. Pethica (Introduction)

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

169 pages, Paperback

First published September 10, 2014

About the author

ENDA WYLEY is a teacher and poet, and has had several books publishe

Reviews

[Leif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wyley has a talent for the incisively humorous and the dramatically emotional alike. This is an excellent collection of her poems (though I might quibble with one or two omissions), and her late work in particular stands up well.

[Lucia Abreu · Rating 5 out of 5]

I keep coming back to this book, as I've discovered Enda in a pivotal moment in my life. Her poetry speaks to my soul and it's a shame not many people know about her. All hail to irish poets!