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Clare Daly T.D. to launch 'Mentioning The War: Essays & Reviews (1999-2011) by Kevin Higgins

category dublin | arts and media | event notice author Monday March 19, 2012 22:21author by Over The Edge Report this post to the editors

DUBLIN LAUNCH of Mentioning The War by Kevin Higgins

YOU ARE INVITED to the Dublin Launch of Mentioning the War - Essays and Reviews (1999 -2011) by Kevin Higgins published by Salmon Publishing
http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=255&a=108
The book will be launched by Clare Daly T.D.@ the Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
on Wednesday, June 6th
LAUNCH STARTS: 7pm
ALL WELCOME

Clare Daly T.D.
Clare Daly T.D.

YOU ARE INVITED
to
The Dublin Launch
of
Mentioning the War - Essays and Reviews (1999 -2011)
by Kevin Higgins
published by Salmon Publishing

The book will be launched by Clare Daly T.D.
@ the Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
on Wednesday, June 6th
LAUNCH STARTS: 7pm
ALL WELCOME

CLARE DALY is a Socialist Party & United Left Alliance TD for Dublin North. Formerly a Councillor for the Swords Local Electoral Area, Clare was first elected to Fingal County Council in 1999, and was subsequently re-elected in 2004 and 2009 decisively topping the poll each time before being elected to the Dáil in February 2011. Clare is to the forefront of the campaign against the Household Tax. In conjunction with Deputies Mick Wallace and Joan Collins she has recently brought before the Dáil the Medical Treatment (Termination Of Pregnancy In Case Of Risk To Life Of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012 in order to provide a legislative basis for the legal termination of a pregnancy in the very limited circumstances where such treatment is deemed necessary to prevent a woman’s death, including the threat of suicide. This was the outcome of the Supreme Court judement in Attorney General v. X in 1992.

Best known for his dark, satirical poems; KEVIN HIGGINS published his first book review in The Galway Advertiser in June 1999. Reading Mentioning the War, it becomes obvious that Higgins is not like other critics. An enthusiastic advocate for the work of the new generation of poets who have emerged from Ireland’s thriving live poetry scene; he is also a merciless opponent of hypocrisy and pretentiousness wherever he finds it. His writing is overtly political in a way that draws comparison with George Orwell – the subject of two extended essays here. It would be impossible to agree with everything in this book; it is a book which often disagrees with itself. But on subjects as diverse as socialist poetry and neoconservatism, funding for the arts and the anti-war movement, Higgins informs, infuriates and entertains, as any good critic should.

“The importance of Higgins, in particular, in spearheading a whole new poetry reading/performance movement in Ireland over the last decade cannot be overstated…he is important not just to readers who might agree with his political or ideological critiques but also to practitioners and students of poetry itself regardless of their ideological inclinations.”
Philip Coleman

“There’s an arresting phrase, a new angle on a writer or a political position you thought you already knew about, in just about every piece here…The insights range from the literary to the existential to the seriously amusing…one of the things Mentioning the War offers, almost incidentally, is an insider’s account of how to learn to write.” John Goodby

KEVIN HIGGINS facilitates poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre; teaches creative writing at Galway Technical Institute and on the Brothers of Charity Away With Words programme. He is also Writer-in-Residence at Merlin Park Hospital and the poetry critic of the Galway Advertiser. He was a founding co-editor of The Burning Bush literary magazine. His first collection of poems The Boy With No Face was published by Salmon in February 2005 and was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award. His second collection, Time Gentlemen, Please, was published in March 2008 by Salmon. One of the poems from Time Gentlemen, Please, ‘My Militant Tendency’, featured in the Forward Book of Poetry 2009. His work also features in the anthology Identity Parade – New British and Irish Poets (Ed Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010). Frightening New Furniture is his third collection of poems and was published in 2010 by Salmon Poetry. Kevin has read his work at most of the major literary festivals in Ireland and at Arts Council and Culture Ireland supported poetry events in Kansas City, USA (2006), Los Angeles, USA (2007), London, UK (2007), New York, USA (2008), Athens, Greece (2008); St. Louis, USA (2008), Chicago, USA (2009), Denver, USA (2010), Washington D.C (2011), Huntington, West Virginia, USA (2011), Geelong, Australia (2011) & Canberra, Australia (2011). As part of his Culture Ireland supported trip to Chicago in February 2009 he participated in and took first place in a specially arranged poetry slam at the Chicago’s Green Mill Bar and Lounge, the birthplace of slam poetry. Kevin’s fourth collection of poetry, The Ghost In The Lobby, will be published by Salmon Poetry in 2013. Kevin is co-organiser of Over The Edge literary events.

For further information about the Dublin launch
Tel: +353 1 8721302
Email: info@writerscentre.ie

Related Link: http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=255&a=108

Kevin Higgins
Kevin Higgins

Mentioning The War: Essays & Reviews (1999-2011) published by Salmon
Mentioning The War: Essays & Reviews (1999-2011) published by Salmon

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   'George Orwell: Anything But A Saint'     Over The Edge    Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:12 
   Dublin launch poster     Over The Edge    Fri Apr 13, 2012 18:14 
   Mentioning the War mentioned in Albanian press     Over The Edge    Thu Apr 19, 2012 23:40 
   Albania ?     Enver the Envious    Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:53 
   any albanian speakers?     reader    Wed Jun 06, 2012 15:15 
   ludicrous comparison     orwell fan    Wed Jun 06, 2012 15:20 
   Good luck with your book. And thanks for all the threats of legal action kevin.     wageslave    Wed Jun 06, 2012 15:41 
   now now ,wageslave repost 2 +     non-contrarian    Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:48 
   Tomeile/ non-contrarian is a poisonous internet snake with dubious motives     wageslave    Thu Jun 07, 2012 17:36 
 10   some quick examples....     wageslave    Thu Jun 07, 2012 18:55 
 11   repost 3 Hopi leader Y Mather and her work for British Aerospace Engineering     non-contrarian    Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:35 
 12   more of the same Tom. Are you REALLY on the same side when all you ever seem to do is undermine it??     wageslave    Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:59 
 13   join the groups and deal with these issues at their meetings perhaps??     indyreader    Sat Jun 09, 2012 21:34 
 14   Clare Daly speech at Dublin launch of Mentioning the War     Over The Edge    Sun Jun 10, 2012 17:05 
 15   troll trap     venus    Tue Jun 12, 2012 15:11 
 16   Launch speech now available on Irish Left Review     Over The Edge    Tue Jun 12, 2012 16:09 
 17   very funny...     tomeilewatch    Tue Jun 12, 2012 17:52 
 18   response     JoeMc    Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:28 
 19   more misrepresentation Tom...     wageslave    Wed Jun 13, 2012 17:30 
 20   response     JoeMc    Thu Jun 14, 2012 14:57 
 21   @ joe/tomeile     wageslave    Thu Jun 14, 2012 17:49 
 22   Irish Anarchist Review reviews Mentionioning the War: Essays & Reviews (1999-2011) by Kevin Higgins     Over The Edge    Wed Nov 28, 2012 01:11 


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