Kevin Higgins
Higgins lives in Galway, Ireland, where with his wife Susan Millar DuMars he co-organises the Over The Edge: Open Reading series. The Boy With No Face (Salmon 2005) was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet. A collection of essays and reviews, Poetry, Politics & Dorothy Gone Horribly Astray, was published by Lapwing Press in 2006. His second collection of poems is Time Gentlemen, Please (Salmon 2008).
Hero
[ poetry - may 08 ]
Firewood
[ poetry - january 08 ]
Stage left, Bookshop romance, Untidiness & The annual air show protest
[ poetry - october 07 ]
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind & As the world burns
[ bookreviews ]
"Adorno was not wrong when he made his infamous 'no poetry after Auschwitz' statement; he just overstated his case."
New American Writing 24
[ bookreviews ]
Fancy some poetry sans existential melodrama?
Death of a revolutionary
[ people | poetry - august 06 ]
Inspired by the death of Ted Grant (1913-2006)
Hurt Thyself; Mercury, the Dime; and Sundial
[ poetry | bookreviews ]
Three new collections.
Summer interlude, Page from the diary of an officially approved person & Infatuation
[ poetry - july 06 ]
The condemned apple
[ bookreviews ]
Visar Zhiti's disturbing poetry from an Albanian gulag.
Tetched & Lick of the lizard
[ bookreviews ]
Excellent Irish and American story collections.
Stasiland
[ bookreviews ]
Funder’s acute awareness of the absurdity that often accompanies the worst tyrannies saves the book from worthiness.
The couple upstairs, The interruption & Café du Journal
[ poetry - december 04 ]
Poetry, politics and Dorothy gone horribly astray
[ opinion - september 04 ]
"And for all its warnings, the glittering genius of Auden could do nothing to stall humanity's mad march to Auschwitz and Hiroshima. That's just not how it works."
GB84
[ bookreviews ]
It was twenty years ago today...
Koba the Dread
[ bookreviews ]
Kevin Higgins is puzzled by Koba the Dread.
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