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Jiving with Wasps: New & Selected Poems by Rita Ann Higgins PRE-ORDER Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2026

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Jiving with Wasps: New & Selected Poems by Rita Ann Higgins PRE-ORDER <b> Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2026 </b>

Published 26th March 2026

Jiving with Wasps is a new retrospective from Ireland's Rita Ann Higgins drawing on a dozen books of poetry published over four decades, from Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986) to The Long Weekend (2024), in addition to new poems appearing here for the first time.

These are provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles. Defiantly mischievous, playfully subversive, this irreverent iconoclast has been achieving even wider popularity through her regular appearances on RTÉ's Brendan O'Connor Show: 'Rita Ann Higgins is the people's poet. She's magic. She's a one-off.'

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