Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama

Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó TuamaKitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Padraig O Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor devotion. A man asks himself if he believes in God and turns to language rather than the maker of language; an agnostic Jesus meets a curious Persephone at hell's exit; a mass for the end of the world is offered by some one more interested in birds than in

eyelids fluttering

it's a way to survive

'A future classic' JANE CASEY

Who is the King Yellow

Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful

Strassmann exposes the conflicts birds face and the many ways in which they resolve these conflicts

Peters explores characters on the brink of self-discovery' BRIT BENNETT

or was torn

Looking for a summer read with bite

the sinister study of the mind of a murderer

They live with their Ma and Da in a Dublin tower block called Bojaxhiu or 'the Jax'

Read this picture book and think again