Galway launch of 'Time Gentlemen, Please' by Kevin Higgins

galway | arts and media | event notice Monday March 03, 2008 00:59 by Over The Edge

Salmon Poetry presents the launch, presided over by Michael Gorman, of Kevin Higgins's second collection of poems, Time Gentlemen, Please. All are welcome to attend.

Time Gentlemen, Please by Kevin Higgins

Salmon Poetry presents the launch, presided over by Michael Gorman, of Kevin Higgins's second collection of poems, Time Gentlemen, Please. All are welcome to attend.

The Boy With No Face, Higgins' first collection, was published in 2005.

Venue: Galway City Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway
Date: Saturday, March 29th
Time: 1.00 pm
E: [email protected]
www.salmonpoetry.com/timegentlemen.html

“What makes Higgins’ work so fresh is that the objects of his wrath are both contemporary and powerful. He does not kick people when they are down, like the fake satirist, or flog dead horses for a comfortable audience. His targets are doing damage now and he’s out to get them...No, Higgins is not Swift but I still hope they’ll put up a plaque to him in Galway Cathedral – or spray paint one of his poems on a wall, which would probably please him more.” Rory Brennan

“Gifted poets like Kevin Higgins rescue language from the “blatant blather of knaves” in which it is immured, and harness its vitality to tell it like it really is.” Tomás Mac Síomóin

Kevin Higgins lives in Galway, Ireland, where he co-organises the Over The Edge literary events in Galway; is the poetry critic of The Galway Advertiser; and was co-founder of The Burning Bush magazine. Kevin’s first collection of poems The Boy With No Face was published by Salmon in February 2005. The Boy With No Face was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish Poet. In September it went to its second printing. His second collection, Time Gentlemen, Please, is published by Salmon. Kevin has read his work at most of the major literary festivals in Ireland and at a wide variety of venues and festivals in Britain, France and the United States. He won the 2003 Cuirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam; and was awarded a literary bursary by the Arts Council in 2005. Kevin’s work is discussed in poet-critic Justin Quinn’s Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, due out in April.