As If To Sing Abdulilah Salhi Tüzföld (Fire-earth) appeared in 1972

Tüzföld (Fire-earth) appeared in 1972 with an introduction by Sándor Weöres

growing against the sun-warm wall of my gut

Finch is a well known performance poet and his poems have the immediacy and the dramatic impact of pieces conceived for the stage

He lives in Aberystwyth

As If To Sing Abdulilah Salhi Tüzföld (Fire-earth) appeared in 1972The power of song, to sustain the human spirit, resonates through this new collection from Paul Henry. In 'Cave Songs', a trapped caver, haunted by a 'ghost choir', crawls back through songs to the sea; Welsh soldiers in 'As if to Sing', pack their hearts into a song, on the eve of the Battle of Passchendaele, 'for safe keeping'; a woman's grief is 'unconscious of its song' and a child sings 'a song with no beginning or end' as father and son cross a