That Kind Of Door

Description

A man loves a woman who lives on one continent and is a devoted father to his two sons who live on another – a situation that finds him sometimes in unbearable anguish. Alan Finlay’s That Kind Of Door describes his life/lives,in a lyrical sequence of taut musicality and precise sparse imagery.

Since the early 1990s Alan Finlay’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies in South Africa and abroad.He founded and edited  two important literary magazines,Bleksem and donga (co-edited with Paul Wessels),and has been an editor of the poetry journal New Coin.He lives between Johannesburg and Pergamino,Argentina and works as a writer,researcher,editor and university teacher in the field of communication freedoms and rights.That Kind of Door is his fifth collection of poems.

Alan Finlay lives in Johannesburg where he works as a writer, researcher and editor on issues of media freedom and internet rights. His poems have appeared in various journals locally and abroad, and short selections of his poetry have been published by small presses. He also edited one of South Africa’s oldest poetry journals, New Coin, for a few years. Finlay is convinced, that the new media offer a brilliant chance to popularize and spread literature– and that online publishing can help to make South African poetry available to readers at home and worldwide.