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Polite Forms

by Harry White (Author)
©2012 Monographs XII, 50 Pages
Series: Carysfort Press Ltd., Volume 787

Summary

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.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • 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

Details

Pages
XII, 50
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9781789970692
ISBN (ePUB)
9781789970708
ISBN (MOBI)
9781789970715
ISBN (Softcover)
9781789970685
Language
English
Publication date
2020 (April)
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2012. XII, 50 pp.

Biographical notes

Harry White (Author)

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