KITCHEN HYMNS by Pádraig Ó Tuama Bill Manhire Whether in London’s veg and

Whether in London’s veg and meat markets

' Eloise Williams

Publishing November 2024

then showing us that we don’t…For me

is the Arabic suffix taamarbuta

KITCHEN HYMNS by Pádraig Ó Tuama Bill Manhire Whether in London’s veg andKitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Pdraig 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