In This Intimate, Confiding Poetry Collection, Mcguinness Shows How Identity Is Layered, Permeable, Always In Motion - How We Are Always Actor And Audience To Ourselves''this Is Mcguinness''s Best Collection By Far, And Stands Out From The Crowd''sunday Timesin Blood Feather, A Book Of Doubling And Displacement, We See Time In A New Way: The Past, Personal And Collective, Lingering As An Ever-present Ghost - While Lost Beyond Recall.the First Section, ''squeeze The Day'' - A Series Of Deeply Moving Poems About The Author''s Mother, Displaced Between Languages - Investigates Her Illness And Death; How Being Bilingual Is Like Having A Double, A Second Self; How Each Self Haunts The Other. ''the Noises Things Make When They Leave'' Elegises Today''s Post-industrial Landscapes, Their People And Professions: Sidelined By Literature, Bypassed By Globalisation. The Final Sequence, ''after The Flood'', Links The Book''s Themes, Seeking A Way Of Seeing Things For The First Time And The Last Time Simultaneously.