The King of Suburbia

by Iggy McGovern

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Though The King of Suburbia is his first collection of poems. Iggy McGovern is already a very well known name in Irish poetry, having published many of the witty, playful but always thoughtful poems in this book in magazines and journals. A physicist at Trinity College Dublin, McGovern brings a scientist's keen eye for observation to bear on a wide range of topics. from his childhood in northern Ireland to contemporary Irish life and, in particular, family life in the Dublin suburbs.

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Iggy McGovern is Associate Professor of Physics at Trinity College, Dublin.

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
821.92Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesBritish Poetry1900-2000-
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PR6113 .C476 .K56Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature2001-
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