Note: This collection has won two major Irish awards for poetry (Patrick Kavanagh Award 1996, American Ireland Fund/Writers' Week Prize 1997). The title sequence is a witty sonnet sequence which explores love and loss through the language and imagery of mathematics. The book ranges from the devastating elegy 'The Wake In The House' to the tenderness of 'Sick Child'. William Wall is a teacher, journalist, and short story writer. He also writes novels for young people.