Ireland Is Changing Mother

Ireland Is Changing Mother is the latest collection from Rita Ann Higgins: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the lives of the Irish dispossessed, before as well as since the demise of the Celtic tiger. ''It shouldn''t be unusual to hear a smart, sassy, unabashed, female working-class voice in Irish writing....