Kevin Higgins, a poet from Galway City, has made a significant impact on the literary scene, co-organizing the popular Over The Edge events. His debut poetry collection, The Boy With No Face, earned a nomination for the 2006 Strong Award. In addition to his poetry, he serves as the poetry critic for The Galway Advertiser and contributes reviews to Books In Canada, showcasing his deep engagement with literature both locally and internationally.
Higgins, Kevin. The Boy With No Face. First Edition. Cliffs of Moher, Salmon, 2005. Octavo. 69 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Kevin Higgins (born 1967 in London) is an Irish poet. Since the mid-nineties he has lived in Galway. With his wife Susan Millar DuMars, he co-organises the Over The Edge literary events in Galway City. He also facilitates poetry workshops at the Galway Arts Centre; teaches creative writing at Galway Technical Institute' and was recently Writer-in-Residence at Merlin Park Hospital. He is the poetry critic of the Galway Advertiser and, with Michael S. Begnal, was a founding co-editor of The Burning Bush literary magazine. Higgins is primarily a satirical poet. His poetry is discussed in Justin Quinn’s Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry. (Wikipedia).
In Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital Kevin Higgins uses the darkest humour to throw some occasionally bizarre but mercilessly honest light on the vexed, and often absurd, subject of his chronic illness. In this, his fifth full collection of poetry, he also gives his readers, as they have come to expect, in poems steeped in the influence of Brecht, Swift, and Zbigniew Herbert, his views in undiluted form on everything from homelessness and identity politics to anal sex and comedians who used to be edgy during the 1990s. The book includes the satire on the marriage of Tony and Cherie Blair which led to his suspension from the British Labour Party in 2016. And in the final section, he presents us with a contemporary Dunciad which lacerates the poetry scene, both in Ireland and internationally, and takes out several journalists along the way.
The fifth collection of poetry from Irish poet Kevin Higgins. Higgins facilitates poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre and teaches creative writing.