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Kitchen Hymns

by Padraig O Tuama

  

€ 14.99 

ISBN: 9781739440572

Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin.




The poems in Padraig O Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor devotion. A man asks himself if he believes in God and turns to language rather than the maker of language; an agnostic Jesus meets a curious Persephone at hell's exit; a mass for the end of the world is offered by some- one more interested in birds than in salvation. In registers of rage, eros and melody, towards nature, elegy and praise, Kitchen Hymns is a study in form and lyric address: the sights and sounds of a poem; the lungs of the world; skin touching skin; experience.




Here are poems of originality and feeling - a provocation to thought, and an invocation of the forces that direct the strange, branching paths of our lives.

96 pages.

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Date of Publication: 30/01/2025

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Irish Plays & Poetry