We look forward to launching Rita Ann Higgins’ new retrospective collection, Jiving with Wasps . This collection compiles over a dozen poetry collections across four decades of work, from Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986) to The Long Weekend (2024), and includes previously unpublished poems. Join us for an afternoon of heart-warming poems of high jinks and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles.
Attendance is free but booking is essential.
ABOUT RITA ANN HIGGINS
Born in Galway, Irish poet and playwright Rita Ann Higgins was one of 13 children in her family, and left school at the age of 14. She began to write poetry in her twenties after being hospitalized with tuberculosis. Her honours include the Peadar O’Donnell Award, several arts council grants, and residencies granted by National University of Ireland-Galway, Offaly County Council and Galway City Library. She is a member of Aosdána. Of late, Rita Ann Higgins has continued to be a popular contributor of poems and chat to the Brendan O’Connor Show.