{"product_id":"jiving-with-wasps-new-selected-poems-paperback","title":"Jiving with Wasps: New \u0026 Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRita Ann Higgins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJiving with Wasps\u003c\/i\u003e is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins drawing on a dozen books of poetry published over four decades. \u003c\/b\u003eThis new book covers her collections from\u003ci\u003e Goddess on the Mervue Bus\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) to \u003ci\u003eThe Long Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eBrendan O'Connor Show\u003c\/i\u003e: \"Rita Ann Higgins is the people's poet. She's magic. She's a one-off.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRita Ann Higgins\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1955 in Galway, where she still lives. She has published many books of poetry and prose, including \u003ci\u003eSunny Side Plucked\u003c\/i\u003e (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) (1996), \u003ci\u003eAn Awful Racket\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eThrow in the Vowels: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eIreland Is Changing Mother\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eTongulish\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) from Bloodaxe. Her 2026 Bloodaxe retrospective, \u003ci\u003eJiving with Wasps: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e draws on all of these, plus her collections from Salmon Press. She is also a playwright, and her most recent plays. Her plays include \u003ci\u003eThe Plastic Bag\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eThe Empty Frame\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003eThe Colossal Longing of Julie Connors\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). Her many awards include a Peadar O'Donnell Award in 1989, the Living Poets Society Award in 2021, and several Arts Council bursaries. She is a member of Aosdána.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588556665081,"sku":"9781780377643","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/7ryqLwYEPN9781780377643.webp?v=1782253379","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/jiving-with-wasps-new-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}