Jiving with Wasps: New & Selected Poems by Rita Ann Higgins PRE-ORDER Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2026 victorian is a ground-breaking anthology examining

is a ground-breaking anthology examining UK disabled and D/deaf poetics

sometimes brutal style

It includes Violet (1997)

and peer beneath the floorboards of ancestral homesteads

the story is punctuated by his own poetry

Jiving with Wasps: New & Selected Poems by Rita Ann Higgins PRE-ORDER <b> Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2026 </b> victorian is a ground-breaking anthology examiningPublished 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