Polite Forms

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.

List of 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.

Product details

• Authors: Harry White
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2020
• EAN: 9781789970685
• ISBN: 978-1-78997-068-5
• No. of pages: 50
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 3 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 106 g
• Series: Carysfort Press Ltd.
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics