Womens anthology bibl+ - Wake Forest University

The Big Break. 2004.
Down All the Roundabouts. Tarcet: Bloodaxe, 2005.
The Plastic Bag. 2008.
The Empty Frame. 2008.
The Plastic Bag. 2008.
Criticism on Higgins
Bourke, Angela, et. al., eds. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vols. 4 & 5. Cork: Cork
University Press, 2002; New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Bourke, Eoin. “Poetic Outrage: Aspects of Social Criticism in Modern Irish Poetry.” In Donald
E. Morse, et. al., eds. A Small Nation’s Contribution to the World. Gerrard’s Cross: Colin
Smythe, 1993: 88–106.
Hildebidle, John. “‘I’ll have to Stop Thinking About Sex’: Rita Ann Higgins and the Patriarchal
Tradition.” In Alexander G. Gonzalez, ed. Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Some Male
Perspectives. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 33–41.
Paul, Catherine. “Rita Ann Higgins: A Moderator’s View.” South Carolina Review 32.1 (1999):
12–14.
Steele, Karen. “Devil in the Mirror.” Irish Literary Supplement: A Review of Irish Books 20.2
(2001): 15–16.
___. “Refusing the Poisoned Chalice: The Sexual Politics of Rita Ann Higgins and Paula
Meehan.” In Catherine Wiley and Fiona Barnes, eds. Homemaking: Women Writers and the
Politics and Poetics of Home. New York: Garland, 1996. 312–33.
Sullivan, Moynagh. “Assertive Subversions: Comedy in the Works of Julie O’Callaghan and
Rita Ann Higgins.” Verse 16.2: 83–86.
Paula Meehan
Volumes of Poetry
Return and No Blame. Donnybrook: Beaver Row, 1984.