The Boy With No Face
by Higgins, KevinFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-08-15
Publisher(s): Salmon Poetry
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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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