The Boy With No Face

by Higgins, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781903392447
• ISBN10: 1903392446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-15
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry

Summary

Irish Poetry

Table of Contents

Confetti	p. 13
To hell and back again	p. 14
Knives	p. 15
By five o'clock	p. 16
In the cold light of day	p. 17
To certain lyric poets	p. 18
I am Ireland	p. 19
President Robinson pays homage to Lord Haw Haw, 21 October 1996	p. 20
A postcard from Minneapolis	p. 21
Winter in Minnesota	p. 22
Exclamation mark	p. 23
Our resident expert	p. 24
The satirist	p. 25
The shop street crooner	p. 26
Cafe du journal	p. 27
The libertine	p. 28
Shirtless in shop street boxing the invisible man on a Saturday afternoon	p. 29
A real Galwegian	p. 31
The leader	p. 32
Desperate weather	p. 33
The voice of reason	p. 34
The hidden hand	p. 35
The FAS man cometh	p. 36
A brief history of those who made their point politely and then went home	p. 37
Talking with the cat about world domination the day George W. Bush almost choked on a pretzel	p. 38
Else	p. 39
A balancing act	p. 40
The red shoes	p. 41
January	p. 43
Some cold water morning	p. 44
Other people's rubbish	p. 45
The slow revenge	p. 46
Finis	p. 47
The requiem plays, though not for us	p. 48
The crossroads	p. 49
Estrangement : a sequence	p. 50
The traces of the silver sand	p. 51
Families and how to survive them	p. 52
Almost invisible	p. 53
November	p. 54
The evidence	p. 55
No more tears	p. 56
5.15 a.m	p. 57
Untitled	p. 58
Absent without leave	p. 59
Letter to a friend about girls	p. 60
1999-1977	p. 61
Remembering the leaving cert	p. 62
No such republic	p. 63
The bankrupt years	p. 64
Nostalgia, 1990	p. 65
The boy with no face	p. 66
Blackhole	p. 67
Lethargy	p. 69
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