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Description for What's What
Paperback. 77pp. Keywords: Irish poetry
Julie O’Callaghan observes life with a sharp wit and a wicked gift for mimicry. Her characters vent strong feelings and betray revealing weaknesses in their own colourful words. What’s What includes a second helping of her incisive monologues – a delicious form she made her own in her first book, Edible Anecdotes – as well as a series of original, tantalising and sometimes bizarre mini-dramas. The book ends with a wide-ranging section of poems in which she evokes people and places, often in a distinctively personal voice. What’s What is an unusually entertaining and accessible book of poems. Poetry Book ... Read more
Julie O’Callaghan observes life with a sharp wit and a wicked gift for mimicry. Her characters vent strong feelings and betray revealing weaknesses in their own colourful words. What’s What includes a second helping of her incisive monologues – a delicious form she made her own in her first book, Edible Anecdotes – as well as a series of original, tantalising and sometimes bizarre mini-dramas. The book ends with a wide-ranging section of poems in which she evokes people and places, often in a distinctively personal voice. What’s What is an unusually entertaining and accessible book of poems. Poetry Book ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852241612
SKU
KHS1011148
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Julie O´callaghan
Born in Chicago in 1954, Julie O'Callaghan has lived in Ireland since 1974. Her collections of poetry include Edible Anecdotes (Dolmen Press, 1983), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; What's What (Bloodaxe Books, 1991), a Poetry Book Society Choice; No Can Do (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; Tell Me This Is Normal: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, ... Read more
Reviews for What's What
The voice of the mid-West on vacation – crude, colloquial and demonstrative. It is the brash voice of the American salesman (‘what da ya think’) promoting freedom, free enterprise and enterprising garbage. It is the voice of returned emigrants, lament-ing their loss. It is the mixed voice of Irish people at tea-break overheard in snatches of conversation. All these voices ... Read more