Fathers and Sons

Abstract

In this article the author seeks to explore the dynamics of father–son relationships by calling upon bits and pieces of memory and representing them through poetic forms and vignettes. Issues of embodiment, ageing, social class, masculinity, sport, and vulnerability as multilayered and interrelated phenomena pervade the text. The constraining and enabling influence each of these can have on emerging senses of body-self and how they are transmitted across generations is hinted at throughout. It is hoped that readers might add their own bits and pieces in the full acknowledgment that memories are tricksters and shape shifters.

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