Event Details
Dates
16/09/2011 – 16/09/2011
The Galway Arts Centre would like to invite you to attend the Galway launch of Ireland Is Changing Mother by Galway poet Rita Ann Higgins
Friday September 16th, 6pm, The Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street.
The collection will be officially launched by comedian Tommy Tiernan.
Wine reception provided, all are welcome.
IRELAND IS CHANGING MOTHER
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.
‘Rita Ann Higgins writes a poetry in which anger is
transformed into irony, social comment into
wordplay. Hers is an unstoppable intelligence, which
comes off the page in a swirl of humour, deprecation
and observation’ – FIONA SAMPSON, Irish Times
‘A brilliantly spiky, surreal blend of humour and social
issues. Her poems are a witty mix of the erotic and
the upfront political from a female perspective, with
wonderful rhythms that effortlessly incorporate
direct speech’ – RUTH PADEL, Independent on Sunday
‘A quite untameable poet. Higgins roams the provincial
towns and countryside of Ireland fomenting rebellion
and writing with unstaunchable energy of everything
warm and unrespectable in Irish life. Her voice is like
nobody else’s, simple but not naive, raucous but
sympathetic’ – PETER PORTER, PBS Bulletin
‘Higgins’s voices are so distinctive and real that a
whole world of semi-rural Irish poverty rises around
the reader with the jolting acuity of an excellent
documentary…an hilarious, absorbing and thoroughly
disturbing experience’ – KATE CLANCHY, Independent
‘Rita Ann Higgins means a unique line in human
warmth; and a unique colour of humour and a
unique clarity’ – PAUL DURCAN
RITA ANN HIGGINS
Biography:
RITA ANN HIGGINS was born in 1955
in Galway, where she still lives. One of
13 children, she left school at 14, and
was in her late 20s when she started
writing poetry. She has since published
nine books of poetry, including Sunny
Side Plucked (1996), which was a Poetry
Book Society Recommendation, An
Awful Racket (2001) and Ireland Is
Changing Mother (2011) from Bloodaxe,
and Hurting God: Prose & Poems (2010)
from Salmon. First published in 2005,
her Bloodaxe retrospective Throw in
the Vowels: New & Selected Poems was
reissued in 2010 with an audio CD of
her reading her poems.
