Pathogens Love A Patsy: Pandemic and Other Poems - Softcover

Higgins, Rita Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912561905 ISBN 13: 9781912561902

Publisher: Salmon Poetry, 2020

Synopsis

In Pathogens Love A Patsy, Rita Ann Higgins bears witness to a moment in Irish life unlike any seen in a century: the Covid-19 crisis. Many of these pandemic poems, broadcast on Brendan O’Connor’s RTÉ Radio 1 show, were composed weekly in direct response to the emerging crisis.

At the center of the collection, a devastating sequence celebrates the memory of Hanna Greally, wrongfully incarcerated in an Irish psychiatric hospital for almost two decades. Then, completing an informal triptych, a selection of work written before the emergency marks the point when everything changed.

Rita Ann Higgins’s wry, conversational style serves a serious purpose: to tell it like it is. Together, the poems in Pathogens Love a Patsy form a narrative that spans eighty years, from a past that is still being addressed, to a present moment that is still unfolding.

Edition details

• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912561905
• ISBN 13: 9781912561902
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96