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.