Splitting Off Catriona Wright From family relations ("Dearly beloved

From family relations ("Dearly beloved

"Christian McPherson's barfly madrigals are smoky and complex

joy and death

a young boy is captured by a Chum salmon and brought to the country of the salmon people-a dry land beneath water where "the salmon people walked about the same as people do above the sea

Splitting Off Catriona Wright From family relations ("Dearly belovedDescription 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