KITCHEN HYMNS by Pádraig Ó Tuama Bill Manhire a book of self-confrontation and

a book of self-confrontation and courage

' Eloise Williams

Twenty-nine international creatives raise their pens

then showing us that we don’t…For me

KITCHEN HYMNS by Pádraig Ó Tuama Bill Manhire a book of self-confrontation andKitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Pdraig 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