Grub
Published on 1. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-9678856-7-4 (ISBN)
Description
Martin Mooney's poems are darkly comic, muscular, inventive and highly charged. Politics simmer beneath the surface of poems that find their energy in the everyday urban experience, be it work at the shipyards, an early morning fishing expedition, the building of houses, or a visit to the local pub. A patently Irish humor, replete with shadows and irony, informs the poet's observations-and the second part of the collection is a kind of novella through poetry that follows the exploits of a young Irish expatriate and a cast of people on the fringe as they stumble through daily unpleasantries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Fort Lee
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9678856-7-4 (9780967885674)
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Martin Mooney was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and has worked as a creative writing teacher, arts administrator and bartender. As well as poetry, he has published short fiction, reviews, critical articles and cultural commentary in Irish and British periodicals. Mooney has been a writer-in-residence at the Brighton Festival and the Aspects Festival of Irish Writing, was for two years Writer-in-Association with the London Mozart Players, and has twice been a member of resident faculty at The Frost Place poetry conferences. Martin Mooney has published the chapbooks Bonfire Makers and Operation Sandcastle, as well as a second full-length collection Rasputin and his Children (2000). Poems from each of these publications have won prizes in Irish and British competitions, and a number have appeared in U.S. poetry journals including Field and The Gettysburg Review.