Poetry Book Club: Jiving with Wasps

Our poetry selection for July is Jiving with Wasps by Rita Ann Higgins. If you haven’t already, please complete the form and be sure to purchase your copy at Scholar & Scribe to read beforehand…and get 10% off when you do!

Jiving with Wasps is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins drawing on a dozen books of poetry published over four decades. This new book covers her collections 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 mischievous, playfully subversive, this irreverent iconoclast has been achieving even wider popularity through her regular appearances on RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor Show: “Rita Ann Higgins is the people’s poet. She’s magic. She’s a one-off.”

This is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and connect with fellow book lovers. We look forward to seeing you there!