Kitchen Hymns

Padraig O Tuama

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CHEERIO Publishing
01 May 2025

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets; Religion & beliefs

Kitchen 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 someone more interested in birds than in salvation. In registers of rage, eros and melody, towards nature, elegy and praise, Kitchen Hymns is a study in form and lyric address: the sights and sounds of a poem; the lungs of the world; skin touching skin; experience. Here are poems of originality and feeling - a provocation to thought, and an invocation of the forces that direct the strange, branching paths of our lives.

By: Padraig O Tuama
Imprint: CHEERIO Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 8mm
ISBN: 9781739440572
ISBN 10: 1739440579
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pdraig Tuama (b. 1975) is from Ireland. The host of On Being's Poetry Unbound podcast, and editor of the anthologies of the same name, he splits his time between Belfast and New York City. His writing includes both poetry and prose, and his work been featured on national radio stations in Ireland, Britain, the US, Australia and New Zealand. Profiled by the New Yorker, his poetry has appeared in many magazines, including Poetry Ireland, the Kenyon Review and the Harvard Review. Kitchen Hymns is his fourth collection of poems.