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Welcome
to the website of Irish
poet and playwright
Anne le Marquand Hartigan
New
poetry collection: Unsweet Dreams
by
Anne Le Marquand Hartigan
published by Salmon
Poetry €12.00
When is passion
Out of fashion?
Read two Sample Poems: Click here
Anne's new book was launched by leading Irish playwright Frank McGuinness in December 2011:
The poems in Unsweet Dreams
have at times the stinging brevity of a proverb, the shocking lance of
a curse, the last testimony of a farewell, a farewell forever, and the
pleasure of telling home truths, particularly when the home is a refuge
where only the truth can be told.
Frank McGuinness
Anne recently discussed and
read poems from her new book Unsweet Dreams with presenter Sean Rocks
on RTE radio's art & culture programme Arena
in January 2012.
In Anne Le Marquand Hartigan’s
Unsweet Dreams complex ideas explode like thought-bombs in the
simple language of everyday talk. The musicality of the poems owes much
to the subtle and complex use of rhythm. Here are poems on a wide variety
of topics, and in a wide range of styles. Tender, loving, blunt, aggressive,
witty , seductive, bitchy , sad, philosophical and joyful, the reflections
on love, sex and death are articulated in a woman’ s voice yet they make
a mockery of clichéd notions of gender. This an important collection by
a poet in her prime.
Dr. Robert Gordon, Goldsmiths, University
of London
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else in the world.
Cover artwork from a painting
by the author
Anne le Marquand Hartigan.
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Anne Le Marquand Hartigan
Anne is a prize-winning poet, playwright and painter. She trained as a
painter at Reading University, England. She returned to Co. Louth, Ireland,
in 1962 with her husband Tim Hartigan where they farmed and reared their
six children. She now lives in Dublin.
She has published six previous collections of poetry: To Keep The Light Burning: Reflections in times of loss (Salmon, 2008); Nourishment (Salmon, 2005); Immortal Sins (Salmon, 1993); the award winning long poem with Anne’s drawings, Now is a Moveable Feast (Salmon, 1991); Return Single (Beaver Row Press, 1986); and Long Tongue (Beaver Row Press, 1982).
Her prose work includes Clearing The Space: A Why of Writing (Salmon, 1996). Her theatre piece Beds was performed at the Damer Hall in 1982 as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Hartigan won the Mobil Prize for Playwriting for her play The Secret Game in 1995. In Other Worlds (2003) was commissioned and performed by Ohio University, USA, then performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Jersey Lilies was performed at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin 1996, where Anne acted with Robert Gordon in this two hander. La Corbiere was performed at the Project Theatre during the Dublin Theatre Festival 1989, and has since been performed in Beirut, Lebanon in 2004 and by Solas Nua Theatre Company in Washington DC, July 2006, where it was the pick of the festival.
A selection of Anne's poems are available on this site, some with recordings of the author reading - see Poetry and scroll down for the links to sample poems. Her books are available to buy here
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Anne Le Marquand Hartigan
reading from her work at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
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