Mentioning the War: Essays & Reviews, 1995-2011 Luay Hamza Abbas

Mentioning the War: Essays & Reviews, 1995-2011 Luay Hamza AbbasThis is Kevin Higgins first book of essays on poetry, the written word, and the wider world. Higgins is an enthusiastic advocate for the new generation of Irish poets emerging from a thriving live poetry scene. He is also a merciless opponent of hypocrisy and pretentiousness wherever he finds it his political writing draws comparison with George Orwell, the subject of two extended essays here. With subjects as diverse as socialism and neoconservatism,

In 2007 he was elected to the membership of Aosdána and in 2008 he received the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award

and leaves from the apples scenting the air

He wrote more than twenty novels

ran into the courtyard

Refusing oblique irony

it also includes poems that look at how we navigate the earthly life after loss

Mobley had been the most unjustly neglected – the truly forgotten man

In the latter half of the twentieth century extensive linguistic analysis was conducted on Sign Language (largely with American Sign Language)

But some he knew were not So easily shocked

Ruth Padel

highly inventive place-names and characters that take the reader into a world of mythology and legend

Actually he was already 18 years old at the time