Polite Forms
1st Edition
Published on 8. April 2020
XII, 50 pages
978-1-78997-069-2 (ISBN)
Description
Polite Forms was written between January, 2008 and June, 2011. Although the whole sequence is, perhaps self-evidently, it is a meditation on family life written from the perspective of a man in his early fifties.
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Content
Polite Forms - The Hairpiece - Nana - Expedience - Box Three, Spool Five - Writing -Proper Nouns - Strictly Private - Pray for the Wanderer - Vestments - Dead Languages - AZH 402 - Bardolino - A Musical Life - My Remarkable Uncle - Something Blue from the Pines - Intolerance - A War Miniature - The Nature of Things - The Music Makers - The Back Gardens - Bucket and Spade - The Rider - Captain Extra Mild - Notices - School-Going - Junior Infants - The Conventions - Night Prayers - Sunday Mass - Radio Sounds - Avenues - Fathers and Sons - In Herbert Park - Swimming Lessons - Lost Things - A Loanword - A Farm Visit - The Girl in the Frame - The Men Who Left - Messages - Wedding Photos - Notes and Acknowledgements.
