Mentioning the War: Essays & Reviews, 1995-2011This 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,

my friends wash me with sap from the kymata creeper

the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition and the Cinnamon Award

Pictures of the Afterlife

He currently teaches at the University of Windsor

the lines write as much between them as the words themselves

” – Meirion MacIntyre Huws

Essay subjects include:

his poems never fail to delight

an extensive Books in Brief section

John Corless is one of the most serious poets we have

Gerrit Komrij

at others fragile and heartbreaking: Callaghan's lyrical poems seem deceptively easy