Sunny Side Plucked: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Higgins, Rita Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852243759 ISBN 13: 9781852243753

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Sunny Side Plucked includes poems from Rita Ann Higgins's three previous bestselling books, Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986), Witch in the Bushes (1988), and Philomena's Revenge (1992), as well as a selection from Higher Purchase. It has since been superseded by Higgins' later retrospective, Throw in the Vowels: New & Selected Poems (2005). Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852243759
• ISBN 13: 9781852243753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160