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Beschreibung
Throw in the Vowels is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Irish dispossessed. The 2010 reissue of this title includes a free audio CD of poems read by the author. She has since published two later collections, Ireland Is Changing Mother (2011) and Tongulish (2016).
Throw in the Vowels is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Irish dispossessed. The 2010 reissue of this title includes a free audio CD of poems read by the author. She has since published two later collections, Ireland Is Changing Mother (2011) and Tongulish (2016).
Über den Autor
Rita Ann Higgins was born in 1955 in Galway, where she still lives. She left school at 14, and was in her late 20s when she started writing poetry. She has since published twelve books of poetry and prose, including Sunny Side Plucked (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) (1996), An Awful Racket (2001), Throw in the Vowels: New & Selected Poems (2005), Ireland Is Changing Mother (2011) and Tongulish (2016) from Bloodaxe, and Hurting God: Prose & Poems (2010) and Our Killer City: isms, chisms, chasms and chisms: essays and poems (2018) from Salmon. Throw in the Vowels was reissued in 2010 with an audio CD of her reading her poems. Her plays include Face Licker Come Home (1991), God of the Hatch Man (1992), Colie Lally Doesn't Live in a Bucket (1993), Down All the Roundabouts (1999), The Plastic Bag (2008), The Empty Frame (2008) and The Colossal Longing of Julie Connors (2014). Her many awards include a Peadar O'Donnell Award in 1989 and several Arts Council bursaries, and she is a member of Aosdána.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781852247003
ISBN-10: 1852247002
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Higgins, Rita Ann
Hersteller: Bloodaxe Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Rita Ann Higgins
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.05.2005
Gewicht: 0,392 kg
Artikel-ID: 102390709