Pure Filth by Aidan Mathews

Pure Filth by Aidan MathewsPure Filth, Aidan Mathews' fifth volume of poetry, follows upon Windfalls (Dolmen, 1977), Minding Ruth (Gallery, 1983), According to the Small Hours (Cape, 1998) and Strictly No Poetry (Lilliput, 2017). At its heart, the collection is about reflections on a career and sustained loves for people, God and art, with themes threaded throughout such as the pandemic, suburban Dublin, Irish landscape and history and the Holocaust. His critic and biographer

She decides the only way to survive is to do the unthinkable - and leave her family

Of giving them hope

My First Book of Irish Animals is filled with different kinds of wildlife from the hedgerows and woodlands to skies and seas

multitudinous life-forms

and Naples of the depths

He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions: doing two push-ups a day

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Patience Agbabi

these classic tales will never be read in the same way again

Unstoppable' Ali Smith

and launching covert influence operations abroad

'Astonishingly vivid' Jodi TaylorThis should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours