<p>Jill Abram's <em>Forgetting my Father</em> is a poignant portrait of family life and a daughter's bond with her ailing father. Abram's poetry is warm and gentle, keeping a space for the moment: "I remember Dad when he still remembered me". Abram writes of love, hope and loss in tender and neatly observed poems, which, in the words of Dylan Thomas: 'rage against the dying of the light'.</p>