Playing Out in the Wireless Days

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Michael Glover

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In this poignant sequel to Headlong into Pennilessness, Sheffield-born Michael Glover, poet and art critic, re-visits the scenes of his childhood and teenage years in and around Fir Vale. He remembers the death of the Sunbeam Cinema, and how it disappeared in a pother of brick dust. He sees again the tramps from the tramps' ward, hurrying down Herries Road in pursuit of a warm sleeping spot in the Reference Room of Firth Park Library. He watches his mother at her exasperating daily ritual of putting her hair into pink curlers to the general indifference of the entire family, who all co-exist, somehow, in that hot little kitchen in Coningsby Road, site of perpetual warfare between snapping relatives, as the homework gets down, somehow, on the kitchen table covered in its slippery oil cloth. It's all here, from playing out on your bike in near trafficless streets, to spinning round and round the gas lamp at the top of Blyde Road until the whole world turns giggly-topsy-turvy.

Author Biography:

Michael Glover was born in Fir Vale, Sheffield, and was educated at Firs Hill Primary School, Firth Park Grammar School, and Queens' College, Cambridge. Poet and art critic for the Independent, he is also the poetry editor of the Tablet. As an arts journalist, he has been a regular contributor to The Times, the Financial Times, the New Statesman and The Economist. He has been a London correspondent for ArtNews, New York. His on-line, international poetry journal, The Bow-Wow Shop (www.bowwowshop.org.uk) first went online in 2009.

Release date NZ

November 13th, 2017

Author

Michael Glover

Pages

160

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

38 illustrations

Dimensions

129x198x11

ISBN-13

9780993576270

Product ID

27405570

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