Mentioning the War: Essays & Reviews 1999-2011 - Couverture souple

Higgins, Kevin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908836121 ISBN 13 : 9781908836120

Editeur : Salmon Poetry, 2012

Synopsis

Reading Mentioning the War, it becomes obvious that Kevin Higgins is not like other critics. An enthusiastic advocate for the work of the new generation of poets who have emerged from Ireland's thriving live poetry scene; he is also a merciless opponent of hypocrisy and pretentiousness wherever he finds it. It would be impossible to agree with everything in this book; it is a book which often disagrees with itself. But on subjects as diverse as socialist poetry and neoconservatism, funding for the arts and the anti-war movement, Higgins informs, infuriates, and entertains, as any good critic should.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kevin has published four collections of poetry with Salmon, The Ghost In The Lobby (2014), Frightening New Furniture (2010), Time Gentlemen, Please (2008), and his best-selling first collection, The Boy With No Face (2005), which was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet. His poetry is discussed in The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry and features in the generation defining anthology Identity Parade –New British and Irish Poets (Ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010) and in The Hundred Years’ War: modern war poems (Ed. Neil Astley, Bloodaxe, April 2014). A collection of Kevin’s essays and book reviews, Mentioning The War, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2012 and 2016 – The Selected Satires of Kevin Higgins was published by NuaScéalta in early 2016. The Stinging Fly magazine recently described Kevin as “likely the most read living poet in Ireland.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Salmon Poetry
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908836121
• ISBN 13: 9781908836120
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 217
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