Jiving with Wasps: New & Selected Poems by Rita Ann Higgins PRE-ORDER Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2026 Robert Graves Simon Armitage's reputation as one

Simon Armitage's reputation as one of the nation's most original

we will build a future where none of us need a food bank

aka the Hottentot Venus

author of ‘bird of winter’

Jiving with Wasps: New & Selected Poems by Rita Ann Higgins PRE-ORDER <b> Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2026 </b> Robert Graves Simon Armitage's reputation as onePublished 26th March 2026 Jiving with Wasps is a new retrospective from Ireland's Rita Ann Higgins drawing on a dozen books of poetry published over four decades, from Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986) to The Long Weekend (2024), in addition to new poems appearing here for the first time. These are provocative and heart warming poems of high jinks and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles. Defiantly