Rasputin and His Children
Rasputin and His Children was originally published by Blackwater Press, and republished by Lagan press in 2003.
“Since his 1993 debut, Grub, Martin Mooney has been one of the most eagerly followed of the younger voices in Irish poetry.
Compelling, urgent yet coming to his material with an acute critical intelligence, Mooney s poetry is political in it profoundest sense. Not hectoring, refusing to earn easy moral kudos but deeply engaged in the forces that shape our lives, he shuns the small domestic verities of the traditional Ulster lyric.
In particular, this collection represents a rigorous exploration of the cultural and political legacies of the northern Protestant dissenting heritage.
This reprint of Rasputin and His Children sees Mooney confirming the rich promises of his debut. And more, deepening those achievements to achieve a profound disturbing public resonance.”