Vinegar Hill
From the highly acclaimed author of "Brooklyn", Colm Toibin's first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion and belonging through a modern lens.
Fans of Colm Toibin's novels, including "The Magician", "The Master" and "Nora Webster", will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Toibin in verse. "Vinegar Hill" explores the liminal space between private experiences and public events as Toibin examines a wide range of subjects – politics, queer love, reflections on literary and artistic greats, living through COVID, memory and a fading past, and facing mortality.
The poems reflect a life well-travelled and well-lived; from growing up in the town of Enniscorthy, wandering the streets of Dublin and Barcelona, and crossing the bridges of Venice to visiting the White House, readers will travel through familiar locations and new destinations through Toibin's unique lens.
Within this rich collection of poems written over the course of several decades, shot through with keen observation, emotion and humour, Toibin offers us lines and verses to provoke, ponder and cherish.
Fans of Colm Toibin's novels, including "The Magician", "The Master" and "Nora Webster", will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Toibin in verse. "Vinegar Hill" explores the liminal space between private experiences and public events as Toibin examines a wide range of subjects – politics, queer love, reflections on literary and artistic greats, living through COVID, memory and a fading past, and facing mortality.
The poems reflect a life well-travelled and well-lived; from growing up in the town of Enniscorthy, wandering the streets of Dublin and Barcelona, and crossing the bridges of Venice to visiting the White House, readers will travel through familiar locations and new destinations through Toibin's unique lens.
Within this rich collection of poems written over the course of several decades, shot through with keen observation, emotion and humour, Toibin offers us lines and verses to provoke, ponder and cherish.
About the author
Colm Toibin was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1955. He is the author of ten novels, including "The Master", "Brooklyn" and "The Magician", and two collections of stories. He has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize and has won the Costa Novel of the Year and the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year. He is Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and Chancellor of Liverpool University. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize. He lives in Dublin.