Description
About the Author
Aidan Mathews was born in Dublin in 1956 and attended UCD and Stanford University in the USA. He is an award-winning playwright, novelist and short-story writer, whose last collection, Charlie Chaplin's Wishbone and Other Stories, was published by Lilliput Press in 2015. He is currently a radio drama producer in RTE.
Reviews
David Wheatley has this to say of the work: 'It is no exaggeration to say that Mathews does not have themes so much as obsessions. If his Catholic faith provides the ground base for all his work, sexuality, mental illness and the Holocaust recur in poem after poem, stitching together the quotidian and the extreme ... Synthesizing the sexual, the sacred, and the secular, Mathews' poetry is a testament of great personal power, answerable to the cloister and the locked ward, the social lepers and the captains of the ship of state.' (Irish Poetry, Wake Forest 2017)
Technical mastery and peculiar intimacy. -- Caitriona O'Reilly * The Irish Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781843517443
Author Aidan Matthews
Format Paperback
Page Count 136
Imprint The Lilliput Press Ltd
Publisher The Lilliput Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 200g
Dimensions(mm) 129mm * 198mm * 150mm