Name: Tongulish von Rita Ann Higgins
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Tongulish Zusammenfassung

Tongulish Rita Ann Higgins

Tongulish is the language of sweet talk and honeyed words, 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 high jinx 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 Bewertungen

Higgins has always been a poet with a distinctive stance, never shirking her responsibilities as a public voice speaking on behalf of those who do not possess such a platforms. She is both jocular and jugular, two traits that combine to make her a singular voice in Irish poetry Passion and conviction walk hand-in-hand in these poems. -- Gerald Smyth * The Irish Times *
Five years ago Rita Ann Higgins released Ireland Is Changing Mother, a poetry collection that doubled as a state-of-the-nation address. A call to arms and a hugely enjoyable read, it was an astute powerhouse of carefully chosen words that confirmed Higgins as one of Irelands great living poets. Tongulish, her 10th collection, is the follow-up Tongulish features her trademark wit and warmth, while choosing to cast an eye towards private, domestic worlds and matters of communication If Ireland is Changing Mother was the boom and bust, then Tongulish is the return to order. -- Eithne Shortall * Sunday Times Ireland *
Tongulish, her 11th book of poetry, finds Higgins as intensively inventive and deliciously subversive as ever The rebellious, innovative Higgins is one of his [James Joyces] distinctive heirs. Like Joyce, she knows just how to beat up the English language and her use of mythology, Irish language and Irelands past put her own inimitable stamp on her bang up-to-date present. -- Martina Evans * The Irish Times *

Über Rita Ann Higgins

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 Doesnt 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 ODonnell Award in 1989 and several Arts Council bursaries, and she is a member of Aosdana.

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Sku

GOR007836500

ISBN 13

9781780373034

ISBN 10

1780373031

Titel

Tongulish Rita Ann Higgins

Autor

Rita Ann Higgins

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Datum

2016-04-28

Anzahl der Seiten

96

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N/A

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