Pathogens Love A Pasty Pandemic and Other Poems
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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 RTÃ Radio 1 show, were composed weekly in direct response to the emerging crisis.
At the centre 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.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.13 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 21.4 × 1 cm |
| Book_author | Rita, Ann Higgins |
| Imprint | Salmon Poetry |
| Cover | Other |
| Pages | 88 |
| Language | English |
| Dewey | 821.92 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
