Time Gentlemen, Please

by Higgins, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781903392768
• ISBN10: 1903392764
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry

Summary

Kevin Higgins was born in London in 1967, and grew up in Galway City where he still lives. He is co-organizer of the highly successful Over The Edge literary events. His first collection of poems. The Boy With No Face was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award. He is the poetry critic of The Galway Advertiser and also regularly reviews for Books In Canada: The Canadian Review of Books.

Table of Contents

From the future, a postcard home
To Sunday Evening	p. 13
Foreboding	p. 14
From the future, a postcard home	p. 15
The Interruption	p. 16
Last Man Standing	p. 17
The Great Escape	p. 18
Time Gentlemen, Please	p. 19
The Couple Upstairs	p. 20
Tuesday	p. 21
No Words	p. 22
On Hearing You've Donated Your Body To Medical Science	p. 23
Today	p. 24
Forecast	p. 25
Room Overlooking The Lake	p. 26
Somewhere Else	p. 27
This Small Obituary	p. 28
Ponders End
St. Petersburg Scenes	p. 31
Kronstadt, Winter Song	p. 32
My Militant Tendency	p. 33
To Curran's Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway	p. 34
Littlehampton	p. 35
The Man in The Horsham Computer Room	p. 36
Leaving The World	p. 37
Ponders End	p. 38
Death of a Revolutionary: Ted Grant (1913-2006)	p. 39
Conversation with a Former Self	p. 40
Political Oblivion	p. 41
Dad	p. 42
Family Dispute	p. 43
Memory	p. 44
The History Of Sad	p. 45
Hypothetical Tea	p. 46
Firewood
The World Socialist Party of Honeysuckle Heights	p. 49
Betrayals	p. 50
Social Realist Poetess Celebrates Birthday	p. 51
The Cause	p. 52
Ending Up	p. 53
The Great Depression	p. 55
Original Bohemian Writes To Ex-Boyfriend About Astronomy	p. 56
Page From The Diary Of An Officially Approved Person	p. 57
The Candidate	p. 58
From Grosvenor Square to Here	p. 59
Reasons for doing The John Walker Lindh	p. 60
Firewood	p. 61
The Annual Air Show Protest	p. 62
A New City
A New City	p. 65
Summer Interlude	p. 66
Shannon Airport, October 21st, 2002	p. 67
Living Proof	p. 68
She Considers His Proposal	p. 69
Warming Your Hands	p. 70
The Cat's Point of View: A Prose Poem	p. 71
Absence	p. 72
Too Close To Call: Results Party, 2004	p. 73
Extra	p. 74
Wholesale Clearance: Everything Must Go	p. 75
Where Christmas Went	p. 76
Keyser Soze Does Not Frighten Me	p. 77
A Previous Engagement	p. 78
Infatuation	p. 79
Word From The Other Country	p. 80
Last Testament
A New Calendar	p. 83
Careful Driver	p. 84
The Doctor's Waiting Room	p. 85
Your Ideal Friday Night	p. 86
Woman On The Verge Of Sending Husband Quietly To Hell	p. 87
The Boy	p. 88
Shapeless Days Shuffiing	p. 89
Portrait of the Boss Shaking Hands with Himself	p. 90
December	p. 91
Retirement	p. 92
Last Testament	p. 93
Hospital	p. 94
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