Detail of a Wall
That kind of door
Alan Finlay
That kind of door, Finlay’s fifth collection, is a narrative of linked poems. 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. That kind of door describes his life in a lyrical sequence of taut musicality and precise imagery.
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Broken lines, incomplete sentences, voices trailing off – That kind of door voices in its forms how attempts at kindness can be blundering. How we wish that best intentions would be sufficient. […] That kind of door points to the silences inside us, reaching, yearning towards the outer and inner borders between people and within ourselves.
– Marike Beyers, New Coin
Date of publication: 2017
ISBN 978-0-9870282-9-7 / ebook ISBN 978-1-928476-25-2
73 pages
203 x 135mm
R120.00
Alan Finlay 2003
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Alan Finlay is a South African poet living in Argentina, working as a writer, researcher and editor on issues of media freedoms and internet rights. His poems have appeared in various journals in South Africa and abroad, and six collections of his poetry have been published by small presses. Over the years he has founded and edited a number of literary publications, including Bleksem and donga (co-edited with Paul Wessels). He was editor of New Coin poetry journal from 2003 to 2007. With Arja Salafranca he edited a collection of prose and poetry, glass jars among trees (2003). His latest chapbook collection, The cactus of a bright sky, was published by Dye Hard Press in 2021. Books published |
Additional information
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Interviews & Articles
Interview with Alan Finlay by Gary Cummiskey Dye Hard Interviews, 2010 text PDF
Alan Finlay interviews Richard Fox, Mbongeni Khumalo and Nadine Botha New Coin (Gale Literature Resource Center), 2004 text PDF
Alan Finlay interviews Miroslav Holub New Coin, 1996 text PDF
Alan Finlay interviews Phillip Zhuwao Bleksem, 1996 text PDF
“Instead of a Photograph: Phillip Zhuwao in Honeydew (1995)” article by Alan Finlay unpublished, 2020 text PDF
Other Links
Reviews of other poetry books by Alan Finlay
Review by Robert Berold of The cactus of a bright sky by Alan Finlay New Coin (ProQuest), 2022
Review by Marike Beyers of pushing from the riverbank by Alan Finlay New Coin (ProQuest), 2012
Interviews by Alan Finlay with other poets
Interview with Kelwyn Sole by Alan Finlay New Coin (Gale Literature Resource Center), 2021
Interview with Joan Metelerkamp by Alan Finlay Dye Hard, 2015
Interview with Mxolisi Nyezwa by Alan Finlay New Coin, 2008 text PDF
Interview with Charl-Pierre Naudé by Alan Finlay New Coin (Sabinet), 2007
Interview with Bernat Kruger by Alan Finlay New Coin (Gale Academic OneFile), 2006
Interview with Rodrigo Rojas by Alan Finlay New Coin (Gale Academic OneFile Select), 2006
Interview with Khulile Nxumalo by Alan Finlay New Coin, 2005 text PDF
Reviews by Alan Finlay
Review by Alan Finlay of butterfly bones by Elisabeth Gowans New Coin (Sabinet), 2021
Review by Alan Finlay of Lament for Kofifi Macu by Angifi Dladla New Coin (Sabinet), 2018
Review by Alan Finlay of Bilakhulu! by Vonani Bila New Coin (Sabinet), 2015
Review by Alan Finlay of The girl who then feared to sleep by Angifi Dladla Sunday Independent, 2001 text PDF
MA thesis
"Making space: The counterpublics of post-apartheid independent literary publishing activities (1994-2004)" by Alan Finlay Wits University, 2009
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