Tongulish

Tongulish PDF Author: Rita Ann Higgins
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ISBN: 9781780373034
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 95

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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. These are provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles, mischievous and playful in their portrayal of feckless folk and outcasts, flirts and weasels, gasbags and scallywags.

Tongulish

Tongulish PDF Author: Rita Ann Higgins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780373034
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 95

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Book Description
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. These are provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles, mischievous and playful in their portrayal of feckless folk and outcasts, flirts and weasels, gasbags and scallywags.

Throw in the Vowels

Throw in the Vowels PDF Author: Rita Ann Higgins
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ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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

Ireland is Changing Mother

Ireland is Changing Mother PDF Author: Rita Ann Higgins
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN: 9781852249052
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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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 lives of the Irish dispossessed, before as well as since the demise of the Celtic tiger.

Goddess on the Mervue Bus

Goddess on the Mervue Bus PDF Author: Rita Ann Higgins
Publisher: Salmon Publishing
ISBN: 9781897648094
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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The Long Weekend

The Long Weekend PDF Author: Rita Ann Higgins
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 1804582417
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99

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From saints' days to Halloween and the many other celebrations on the Irish calendar, this collection of poetry from Rita Ann Higgins sets a tone for all seasons. Featuring bank holiday poems as heard on RTÉ Radio, such as 'Lúnasa' and 'Coming Out of Winter', and others like 'My Mother Loved Me in Red', 'The Púca', 'Visiting My Father at Christmas' and 'All Souls' Day', The Long Weekend leaves no question that Rita Ann Higgins is the people's poet. 'The people's poet. She's magic. She's a one-off.' Brendan O'Connor 'A haunting, beautiful collection of poems that commands attention and bears witness to life's struggle. This collection confirms Higgins as one of our greatest poets.' Elaine Feeney 'A work of immense thoughtfulness.'Susannah Dickey

An Awful Racket

An Awful Racket PDF Author: Rita Ann Higgins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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An Awful Racket was Rita Ann Higgins's first Bloodaxe collection to follow Sunny Side Plucked, her first retrospective: provocative and heartwarming poems of high jinx, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Irish dispossessed. Now out of print, the poems are included in her later retrospective, Throw in the Vowels (2005).

Geis

Geis PDF Author: Caitríona O'Reilly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930630734
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Geis is a word from Irish mythology meaning a supernatural taboo or injunction on behavior. In her third volume of poetry (following the critically acclaimed The Nowhere Birds and The Sea Cabinet), Caitríona O'Reilly examines the geis in all of its psychological, emotional, and moral suggestiveness: exploring the prohibitions and compulsions under which we sometimes place ourselves, or find ourselves placed. Geis is the first appearance of a volume by Caitríona O'Reilly in North America, though she has been anthologized numerous times, including in The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, Volume I (2005) and The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry (2nd edition, 2011). In poems that range from the searingly personal to the more playfully abstract and philosophical, this poet's characteristic imaginative range and linguistic verve are everywhere in evidence. These are poems that question our sometimes tenuous links with the world, with others, and even with ourselves, but which ultimately celebrate the richness of experience and the power of language to affirm it.

The Sea Cabinet

The Sea Cabinet PDF Author: Caitríona O'Reilly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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This is an accomplished second collection from Caitriona O'Reilly, with poems on nature and history, including the vanished world of the whaling industry."

Sunny Side Plucked

Sunny Side Plucked PDF Author: Rita Ann Higgins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Rita Ann Higgins has reinvigorated poetry in Ireland in the past decade. She published her first collection only ten years ago. Five books, three plays and many awards later, she became Writer in Residence at University College in her home city of Galway.

Float

Float PDF Author: Anne Carson
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 9780771018442
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From the renowned classicist and MacArthur Prize winner: a brilliant new collection that explores myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with--and pushing--the limits of language and form. Anne Carson continuously dazzles us with her inventiveness and the way her work changes our perspectives. With Float, she surpasses her own bar. In individual chapbooks that can be read in any order, she conjures a mix of voices, time periods, and structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories "maddeningly attractive" when observed in liminal space. One can begin with Carson puzzling through Proust on a frozen Icelandic plain; in the art-saturated enclaves of downtown New York City; atop Mount Olympus as Zeus ponders his afterlife. There is a three-woman chorus of Gertrude Steins embodying an essay about "falling." And an investigation of monogamy and marriage as Carson anticipates the perfect egg her husband is cooking for breakfast. Exquisite, heartbreaking, disarmingly funny, Float illuminates the uncanny magic that comes with letting go of boundaries. It is Carson's most intellectually electrifying and emotionally engaging book to date. From the Hardcover edition.