"darkly comic, brilliantly allusive, elegaic - Martin Mooney's Grub marks the debut of an inventive and highly charged imagination. dealing with political hypocrisy, the nature of creativity and love, his poems form a series of hard-edged satirical parables exploring an eclectic range of subject matter, including Anna Akhmatova's funeral, the Belfast shipyards, body piercing and poll tax evasion..."