Plays & Poetry

Jiving with Wasps is a new retrospective from Ireland's Rita Ann Higgins drawing on a dozen collections from Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986) to The Long Weekend (2024). Defiantly mischievous, playfully subversive, this irreverent iconoclast has been achieving wider popularity through RTE's Brendan O'Connor Show.

Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live on radio from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor Show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holiday poems heard on the show and many others, sets a tone for all seasons.

Ireland Is Changing Mother is Rita Ann Higgins at her edgy best: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Irish dispossessed.

Tongulish is the language of sweet talk and honeyed words, babble and blather, quibble and quizzical - and Tongulish is spoken throughout Rita Ann Higgins's lively new collection, her first since Ireland Is Changing Mother.