Exploring the Mad Messiah
Irish Jesuit Edmond Grace has written a comic saga of poetry in four parts entitled Mad Messiah. It’s poetry like you’ve never heard before – a funny, provocative, moving, clever commentary on modern life and the ancient quest to encounter the living God, who shows up in Edmond’s work as the paradoxical figure of Jesus Christ, ‘Mad messiah’.
Edmond writes from a different personal perspective in each of the four cycles of poems – Dublin south-sider, aging Jesuit, bewildered male, and Irish Catholic.
In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications he sets out a road map for navigating the collection that will help the reader as they accompany him on his ‘mad’ and ‘mythical’ journey.
Irish Jesuit Communications have also recorded Edmond reading his work which he does in a variety of accents that lend another layer of meaning to his richly symbolic verse. Click here to listen »
