Grace Wilentz’s first collection, The Limit of Light, was selected as a book of the year in The Irish Independent and The Irish Times. In her second, Harmony (Unfinished), are poems about hesitating at the borderline of risk, and proceeding anyway. The book plays on, and off, its epigraph, ‘Why not the life?’, exploring the ways artists carve the groove of daily practice. Though these poems are rooted in an acute feeling of the passage of time they create space for exploring the worlds we make apart from the one we are presented with.
Taking us from Ireland to Brazil and back again, with a few diversions, the poems in Harmony (Unfinished) reveal a gentle sensibility: ‘That night we saw / the moon is born in the river.’
