Rita Ann Higgins Livres

'Throw in the Vowels' is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins including a free audio CD of poems read by the author.

This book gives special insight into how closely poetry and prose can work together to bring a perspective of deep understanding.

Our Killer City: isms, chisms, chasms and schisms gathers together articles from Rita Ann Higgins' Sunday Independent This Woman's Life' column, as well as other select essays and poems, many of which are previously unpublished. Book jacket.

In Pathogens Love A Patsy , Rita Ann Higgins bears witness to a moment in Irish life unlike any seen in a the Covid-19 crisis. Many of these pandemic poems, broadcast on Brendan O’Connor’s RTÉ Radio 1 show, were composed weekly in direct response to the emerging crisis.At the center of the collection, a devastating sequence celebrates the memory of Hanna Greally, wrongfully incarcerated in an Irish psychiatric hospital for almost two decades. Then, completing an informal triptych, a selection of work written before the emergency marks the point when everything changed.Rita Ann Higgins’s wry, conversational style serves a serious to tell it like it is. Together, the poems in Pathogens Love a Patsy form a narrative that spans eighty years, from a past that is still being addressed, to a present moment that is still unfolding.

Ireland Is Changing Mother is the latest collection from Rita Ann Higgins: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Irish dispossessed.

Tongulish is the language of sweet talk and honeyed words, babble and blather, quibble and quizzical - and Tongulish is spoken throughout Rita Ann Higgins's lively new collection, her first since Ireland Is Changing Mother.