Father and Son : Selected Poems

Frederick Robert Higgins (1896-1941) was born in County Mayo. A close friend of Austin Clarke and William Butler Yeats, Higgins was elected a foundation member of the Irish Academy of Letters and in 1935 became a director of the Abbey Theatre. Well-regarded as a poet, he also edited with Yeats a series of broadside ballads for the Cuala Press. This volume collects the best of Higgins's output from his four poetry collections and the literary magazines in which his poems appeared.