Gas light & coke / Fergus Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Fergus.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

83 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Gas light and coke

Place of Publication:

Dublin, Ireland : Dedalus, 2006.

Summary:

Fergus Allen is now 84. He was schooled in Ireland including Engineering at Trinity College, Dublin, where he wrote light verse for the College magazine. T.C.D. In the latter part of World War II economic necessity obliged him to move to England, where he has lived ever since. He ended his professional career as First Civil Service Commissioner in the British civil service. He has had poems published sporadically throughout his life, but after his formal retirement he found himself writing much more actively.

Contents:

Pontecorvo 3

The Fire-Escape 5

Zennor 6

After Pneumonia 8

Death Sentences 9

Therimenes 10

Syracuse 12

Irises 14

On the Island 15

Blue Sky 19

At the Meeting of the Niles 20

Gas Light & Coke 22

How the Mind Works 24

Cheap Music 25

MD 26

Bougainvillea 28

Easterly 29

The Unadapted 31

Grandfathers 32

Battue 35

A Bad Debt (1842) 36

Exmoor 33

Grinzing 39

The Abalone Handlers 40

An Assumption 42

The Iron Room 43

The Wicket 44

Penguin Island 46

In the Hotel 43

Storyville Portraits 49

Anxiety 51

First Thing 52

The Dartry Dye Works 53

The Magus 56

In Shallow Water 58

The Fever Hospital 59

Curtains 61

Ouija 62

Untitled 63

Like Minds 64

Around the Crater 66

Summer Night 68

Alessandro Moreschi, Castrato 70

Breakfast Time 71

On Wexford Bridge 75.

ISBN:

1904556485

9781904556480

OCLC:

70049552