Jiving With Wasps: New & Selected Poems - Softcover

Higgins, Rita Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780377649 ISBN 13: 9781780377643

Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Jiving with Wasps is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins drawing on a dozen books of poetry published over four decades. This new book covers her collections from Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986) to The Long Weekend (2024), in addition to new poems appearing here for the first time. These are provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles. Defiantly mischievous, playfully subversive, this irreverent iconoclast has been achieving even wider popularity through her regular appearances on RTÉ's Brendan O'Connor Show: "Rita Ann Higgins is the people's poet. She's magic. She's a one-off."

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Rita Ann Higgins was born in 1955 in Galway, where she still lives. She has published many books of poetry and prose, including Sunny Side Plucked (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) (1996), An Awful Racket (2001), Throw in the Vowels: New & Selected Poems (2005), Ireland Is Changing Mother (2011) and Tongulish (2016) from Bloodaxe. Her 2026 Bloodaxe retrospective, Jiving with Wasps: New & Selected Poems draws on all of these, plus her collections from Salmon Press. She is also a playwright, and her most recent plays. Her plays include The Plastic Bag (2008), The Empty Frame (2008) and The Colossal Longing of Julie Connors (2014). Her many awards include a Peadar O’Donnell Award in 1989, the Living Poets Society Award in 2021, and several Arts Council bursaries. She is a member of Aosdána.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1780377649
• ISBN 13: 9781780377643
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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