Hurting God: Part Essay Part Rhyme - Softcover

Higgins, Rita Ann

 
9781907056512: Hurting God: Part Essay Part Rhyme

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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.

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Rita Ann Higgins was born in 1955 in Galway, Ireland, where she still resides. Her first five poetry collections were published by Salmon: Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986); Witch in the Bushes (1988); Goddess and Witch (1990); Philomena’s Revenge (1992); and, Higher Purchase (1996), as well as a memoir Hurting God (2010). Bloodaxe Books published her next five collections: Sunny Side Plucked (1996); An Awful Racket (2001); Throw in the Vowels: New & Selected Poems in May 2005 to mark her 50th birthday; Ireland is Changing Mother (2011), and Tongulish (2016). She won the Peadar O'Donnell Award in 1989 and has received several Arts Council of Ireland bursaries. Her collection Sunny Side Plucked was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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