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His poetry is characterised by subtle imagism, a minute documentation of the seemingly commonplace, a colloquial idiom and a conscientious refusal to engage in any poeticising.
Though set in London and free of poeticizing, "Paddywack" is as Irish as anything by Brian Friel.
Such childish poeticizing is reinforced, in directing us to the level of the infant, by the 'penny for the Old Guy ' epigraph, by the dressing up as a scarecrow, and by the nursery rhyme, 'Twinkle twinkle little star', which inescapably underlies the line 'Under the twinkle of a fading star'.