Philomena's revenge: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Higgins, Rita Ann

Poetry

Salmon

Tongulish is the language of sweet talk, 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 hijinks 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

Bloodaxe Books

Sunny Side Plucked includes poems from her three previous bestselling books, Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986), Witch in the Bushes (1988), and Philomena's Revenge (1992), as well as a selection from Higher Purchase. All are available from Dufour.

Sunny Side Plucked: New & Selected Poems

Higgins, Ann

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

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).

An Awful Racket

Throw in the Vowels: New & Selected Poems (with audio CD)

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.

Ireland Is Changing Mother

Review\nAnything Is Better Than Emptying Bins 
The Barman Of Sexford 
Be Someone 
The Blanket Man 
Daughter Of The Falls Road 
The Did-you-come-yets Of The Western World 
Dog Is Dog Is Dog 
End Of A Free Ride 
He Fought Pigeons' Arses, Didn't He? 
His Mother Was The Problem With His Veins 
I Went To School With You 
I'm Strictly A Chair Person 
It Wasn't The Father's Fault 
It's All Because We're Working Class 
The K.k.k. Of Kastle Park 
Men With Tired Hair 
No Balls At All 
No Bliss In Newbliss 
Old Soldier 
Oracle Readers 
Peter Picasso 
The Rat Catchers 
Second Thoughts 
Secret Lovers 
She Is Not Afraid Of Burglars 
Sly Autumn 
Some People 
The Tell Tattler 
Witch In The Bushes 
Woman's Inhumanity To Woman 
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®\nProduct description\nBook by Higgins, Rita Ann

Witch in the Bushes (Salmon Poetry)

Poolbeg Pr Ltd

Philomena's Revenge

Salmon Poetry

Higher Purchase is Rita Ann Higgins' fourth volume of poetry. The ironic pun of the title profoundly bespeaks the frailty of human striving; highlights the craving for something more than the limits imposed by circumstance. This volume again displays Ms. Higgins' highly developed social awareness; issues sifted through her own personal experience.

Higher Purchase

Dufour Editions

God, fairies, jiving factory girls, a crocodile-wielding father, long-lost lives, and equally long-lost multinationals all form part of the brilliant world of Rita Ann Higgins's collection of essays and poems. For over two decades Rita Ann Higgins has provided a voice for the voiceless. In these essays, which form a poetic memoir, she shows yet again that she is one of the best contemporary Irish writers.

Hurting God: Part Essay Part Rhyme (Salmon Poetry)

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