In these poems the personal and global darknesses are always lit by Kevin Higgins’s singular wit. There is lyricism, and acute vulnerability, here. But if you want reassuring, middle class epiphanies...

In Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital Kevin Higgins uses the darkest humour to throw some occasionally bizarre but mercilessly honest light on the vexed, and often absurd, subject of his chronic...

Poems laced with humor that take the reader through the hubris of boom time Ireland and out the other side into a strange country where everything is suddenly broken again.

A new collection of poetry from a poet who was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award, awarded the 2003 Cúirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam and a literary bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland in 2005.

Irish Poetry