{"product_id":"jiving-with-wasps-new-selected-poems-9781780377643","title":"Jiving with Wasps: New \u0026 Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJiving with Wasps\u003c\/i\u003e is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins drawing on a dozen books of poetry published over four decades. \u003c\/b\u003eThis new book covers her collections from\u003ci\u003e Goddess on the Mervue Bus\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) to \u003ci\u003eThe Long Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eBrendan O'Connor Show\u003c\/i\u003e: \"Rita Ann Higgins is the people's poet. She's magic. She's a one-off.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloodaxe Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780377643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Rita Ann Higgins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52679534346421,"sku":"9781780377643","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/jiving-with-wasps-new-selected-poems-9781780377643","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}