{"product_id":"padraig-o-tuama-kitchen-hymns-2025-paperback","title":"Padraig O Tuama: Kitchen Hymns [2025] paperback","description":"Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in Padraig O 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 some- one 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere 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.","brand":"O Tuama, Padraig","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50660694425939,"sku":"9781739440572","price":15.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/o-tuama-padraig-padraig-o-tuama-kitchen-hymns-2025-paperback-9781739440572-1152165597.jpg?v=1743115289","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/padraig-o-tuama-kitchen-hymns-2025-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}