Mentioning the War: Essays & Reviews, 1995-2011 Manuela Palacios A health scare merits a

A health scare merits a mini-epic in 'The Clinic'

he was speaking of secrets to be told

Translated by Stefan Tobler

honest and truthful book about fatherhood

Watson seeks to combine the workaday surface with the deeper issues of dislocation in accessible and musical language and images

Mentioning the War: Essays & Reviews, 1995-2011 Manuela Palacios A health scare merits aThis is Kevin Higgins first book of essays on poetry, the written word, and the wider world. Higgins is an enthusiastic advocate for the new generation of Irish poets emerging from a thriving live poetry scene. He is also a merciless opponent of hypocrisy and pretentiousness wherever he finds it his political writing draws comparison with George Orwell, the subject of two extended essays here. With subjects as diverse as socialism and neoconservatism,