The Leaves on Grey Poetry Higgins and Austin Clarke

Higgins and Austin Clarke

but we do have The Odyssey

He took ship to Egypt and was active in the Western Desert campaign

as the author – the poet’s youngest son – lovingly recreates the mysteries and magic of the countryside and its people

is still widely read

The Leaves on Grey Poetry Higgins and Austin ClarkeTo seek the beginning is to go back a long time ago, when the town in which I am writing was a little different and trees hung at the end of the town, trees hung obsessively, many trees, much green at the end of the street come summer, come the arrival of leaves and sun and buttercup blaze. It is the late 1940s, and Sean and Liam, middle class boys in a small West of Ireland town, share a powerful bond of love and rivalry: each long for the same