- 350 pages
- English
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About this book
Jiving with Wasps is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins drawing on a dozen books of poetry published over four decades. This new book covers her collections from Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986) to The Long Weekend (2024), in addition to new poems appearing here for the first time. These are provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles. Defiantly mischievous, playfully subversive, this irreverent iconoclast has been achieving even wider popularity through her regular appearances on RTÉ's Brendan O'Connor Show: "Rita Ann Higgins is the people's poet. She's magic. She's a one-off."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- From Goddess on The Mervue Bus (1986)
- From Witch in The Bushes (1988)
- From Philomena’s Revenge (1992)
- From Higher Purchase (1996)
- From An Awful Racket (2001)
- From Throw in The Vowels (2005)
- From Ireland is Changing Mother (2011)
- From Tongulish (2016)
- From Our Killer City (2018)
- From Pathogens Love A Patsy (2020)
- From The Long Weekend (2024)
- New Poems (2026)
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