Darkly comic, brilliantly allusive, elegiac - Martin Mooney's Grub marks the debut of an inventive and highly charged imagination. Dealing with political hypocrisy, the nature of creativity and love, his poems form a series of hard-edged satirical parables exploring an eclectic range of subject matter, including Anna Akhmatova's funeral, the Belfast shipyards, body piercing and poll tax evasion. Weaving a magical realist fable of a young Irish expatriate adrift in Thatcherite London, Grub's title sequence - with its cast of corrupt policemen, malevolent ghosts and a rapidly disintegrating band of punks and down-and-outs - draws together elements as disparate as the Marchioness disaster and the murder of Roberto Calvi to create a powerful narrative constantly underpinned by 'the spiky friction of the fantastic and the everyday'.

Grub

Literature & Fiction

Mooney, Martin

Poetry

Blackstaff Pr

Martin Mooney’s poems are darkly comic, muscular, inventive and highly charged. Politics simmer beneath the surface of poems that find their energy in the everyday urban experience, be it work at the shipyards, an early morning fishing expedition, the building of houses, or a visit to the local pub. A patently Irish humor, replete with shadows and irony, informs the poet’s observations―and the second part of the collection is a kind of novella through poetry that follows the exploits of a young Irish expatriate and a cast of people on the fringe as they stumble through daily unpleasantries.

CavanKerry Press

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Grub

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