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Kevin Higgins is co-organiser of Over The Edge literary events in Galway, Ireland. He has published five full collections of poems: The Boy With No Face (2005), Time Gentlemen, Please (2008), Frightening New Furniture (2010), The Ghost In The Lobby (2014), & Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital (2019). His poems also feature in Identity Parade – New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010) and in The Hundred Years’ War: modern war poems (Ed Neil Astley, Bloodaxe May 2014). His poems have been quoted in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Times (London), & The Daily Mirror, and read aloud by Ken Loach at a political meeting in London. The Stinging Fly magazine has described Kevin as “likely the most widely read living poet in Ireland”. His work has been broadcast on RTE Radio, Lyric FM, and BBC Radio 4. His book The Colour Yellow & The Number 19: Negative Thoughts That Helped One Man Mostly Retain His Sanity During 2020 is just published by Nuascealta. Kevin’s sixth full poetry collection, Ecstatic, will be published by Salmon this summer.

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Poem of the Week | The Abolition of What’s Next by Kevin Higgins

Kevin Higgins Jan 11, 2021 0
The Abolition of What's Next By Kevin Higgins It is ten to whenever  and must remain so. The living room door will remain ajar at exactly that angle. The cat will forever have just opened…
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Poem of the Week | Vacating by Kevin Higgins

Kevin Higgins Feb 10, 2020 0
Vacating by Kevin Higgins   Tomorrow we vacate the House of Hope, pack what-was-to-have-been in the brown cardboard boxes we retain from our previous exile. Once we’re safely gone, the plain kitchen table at…
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Revolution NOW [09]: Vote of No Confidence

Kevin Higgins Mar 9, 2016 0
Vote of No Confidence It’s not the manner of your going— be it in an accident no one saw happen, not even the woman driving the car that hit you; or you slipping of your own volition into a lovely hot bath, clutching a large…
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Poem of the Week |24| Review of Non-Existent Poetry Collection

Kevin Higgins Oct 21, 2015 0
Review of Non-Existent Poetry Collection These poems are as engaging as the mobile phone that kept ringing during the last ever performance of Waiting for Godot at the Albanian National Theatre, before the building was demolished to…
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