Book Club: Pity for the Wicked
The first of our three featured books this month is Brian Lynch’s long poem, Pity for the Wicked. He uses the simplest of rhyme schemes to underscore the banality and the horror of ‘political’ murder in Northern Ireland. It’s a relatively short read compared to the other two featured books (The Pope’s Children
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Umm… Mick that last link to “the poet himself” leads to a realestate agent in North Carolina, USA!
Is that reight?
hes right, you know & i certainly would buy a house off either of the featured tubes.
It should be sorted now.
Who is the woman pictured on the cover? Was she the woman killed in a east Belfast loyalist drinking den, when mistaken for a catholic?
Crow
Buy the book and find out
The woman on the cover is Margaret Wright, murdered by the Red Hand Commando in an illegal drinking club ‘down at the end of Meridi Street’, near the Donegall Road on 6 April 1994.
But Miss Fitz is right, you should get the book.