Pathogens Love a Patsy: Pandemic and Other Poems

by Rita Ann Higgins

In Pathogens Love A Patsy, Rita Ann Higgins bears witness to a moment in Irish life unlike any seen in a century: the Covid-19 crisis. Many of these pandemic poems, broadcast on Brendan O'Connor's RT? Radio 1 show, were composed weekly in direct response to the emerging crisis.

At the center of the collection, a devastating sequence celebrates the memory of Hanna Greally, wrongfully incarcerated in an Irish psychiatric hospital for almost...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912561905
• ISBN13: 9781912561902
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"