Rita Ann Higgins

Edict

语言: 英文
翻译: 德文 (Edikt)

Edict

Go to Tuar Beag and sing for her
take only left turns
pass out the whitethorn
but remember to pay homage
admire it as it should be admired
pay no heed to the piseog brigade.

Stay with her lon dubh, perch and be ready.
Watch out for straws in the wind
egg shells, a lone magpie
a wendy goat, mistletoe out of season.

Keep an eye on Regret  
jaywalker by day, shape shifter by chance
and Despair, a weasel waiting to lunge.
Settle and sing blackbird, sleep not.

© Rita Ann Higgins
从: Unpublished Manuscript
录制: 2008 Literaturwerkstatt Berlin

Rita Ann Higgins

* 26.05.1955, Galway, 爱尔兰
居住于：Galway, 爱尔兰
Rita Ann Higgins, born in Galway in 1955, has published numerous volumes of poetry, as well as several plays. One of 11 children, Higgins left school at 14 and first began to be interested in writing during a long stay in hospital in her 20s.

In an interview she described her decision to become a poet with a typical lack of pretension: 'You didn’t have to worry about tenses and verbs. You could write a poem without a verb, and if you didn’t know what a verb was – and I didn’t – it was ok.' Her poems, similarly ironic in tone, have been awarded numerous prizes.

Higgins has held the post of Writer-in-Residence at several Irish Universities, undertaken readings at Oxford, Queens, and Yale University - where her poems are also part of the Literature Curriculum - and at conferences in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Belgium and Israel. Her poems have been translated into Hebrew, German, Italian, Dutch, French and Swedish.
出版

  • Goddess on the Mervue Bus

    County Clare: Salmon Poetry, 1986

  • Witch in the Bushes

    County Clare: Salmon Poetry, 1988

  • Goddess and Witch

    County Clare: Salmon Poetry, 1990

  • Face Licker Come Home

    [Play / Theaterstück]

    First produced: Punchbag Theatre, Galway

    Salmon Publishing, 1991

  • Philomena's Revenge

    County Clare: Salmon Poetry, 1992

  • God of the Hatch Man

    [Play / Theaterstück]

    First produced: Taibhdhearc na Gallimhe, Republic of ireland

    Unpublished, 1993

  • Higher Purchase

    County Clare: Salmon Poetry, 1996

  • Sunny Side Plucked: New and Selected Poems

    Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1996

  • Throw in the Vowels: Selected Poems

    Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2005

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