<> The Mortal Place John Hewitt Estate 1986 Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF Hewitt006 Manuscript Roe Street, Coppers, Manor Street English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hewitt006 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Hewitt006_0.jpg LHL Archive whose names I still remember, druggist, grocer, confectioner, baker, draper, by their wares. From Dangle Street to Roe Street windows blazed with sight's delight, with treasures pence could buy when you had coppers, or on bidden errand, each character with individual focus dwindling at each end with strangers' houses Now just last week a taximan who lived in Manor Street was gunned remorselessly, and in between the streets, Roe Street and Avonbeg, a wall's being raised to hold the tribes apart. For in recent years there's been a drift of folk from distant places for kinships, friendships, comfort, security; to paraphrase those words of Baudelaire a town's more mortal than a people's fears. Text