[citation needed] Higgins lived in London in the late 1980s where he was active in the "anti-poll tax movement".
Higgins's first collection of poems, The Boy With No Face,[3] was published by Salmon Poetry in February 2005.
[5] He won the 2003 Cúirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam and was awarded a literature bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland in 2005.
[6] In 2009, Higgins and his wife Susan Millar DuMars were the subject of a short documentary by Des Kilbane called 'Rhyming Couplet', which was screened at the 2009 Galway Film Fleadh.
In August 2010, Higgins contributed to an ebook collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State, edited by Alan Morrison.