Vanishings
Seamus Deane, 30 December 1982
“... that light, John Montague is, in the Irish tradition, powerfully instructive. At a first reading, Tom Rawling’s Ghosts at my Back might seem nothing more than the evocation of a nearly vanished way of life in which activities like sheep-shearing, fishing and gardening, and the vivid dialect of Northern England, are commemorated. A closer reading ... ”
