In My Grandfather’s Mansion is published in a limited edition of one hundred and seventy-five numbered copies signed by the author. One hundred and fifty copies only are for sale.
In My Grandfather’s Mansion, John Montague’s latest offering, is a conjuring out of the author’s childhood air of two of his ancestors – his grandfather and namesake, paterfamilias and Ulster Catholic Justice of the Peace, and his wife, the poet’s grandmother, ‘a silent solemn figure’ but ‘a flesh-and-blood woman’.
Combining songs and sayings and referencing tomes in his grandfather’s library, the poems in In My Grandfather’s Mansion become a play for voices by one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers – now a grandfather himself, actively composing in his 82nd year.
28pp ISBN: 978 1 85235 496 1 Soft cover, hand-sewn.
Publication date: June 2010
