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in ‘pre-Troubles’ Derry
These poems flirt and confront in turns
and as a scholar of the poetry of John Montague and of the Dolmen Press
he was brought up by his blind mother and elderly grandmother amid the rigid Presbyterian confines of Scotland’s north-east
A Fold in the Map Format:Paperback in ‘pre-Troubles’ DerryA Fold in the Map charts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving ones native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a fathers final painful journey. In the first part of the collection, Plenty before the fold the poems deal with family, and longing for home from a new country, with all the ambiguity and doubleness this perspective entails. In the books second half, Meet My Father, the poems recount events more
