Southword Poetry Podcast

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Southword Poetry Podcast Podcast

The Southword Poetry Podcast is produced by the Munster Literature Centre. Each episode, a guest poet talks in depth about their latest work and shares a few of their poems. We also hear a poem from a recent issue of the literary journal Southword. Sarah Byrne hosted the 2022 season. Clíona Ní Ríordáin hosted the 2024 season. Poets were selected by the hosts, Patrick Cotter and James O’Leary. The Munster Literature Centre is a grateful recipient of funding from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Office of Cork City Council.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    Deborah Paredez: Year of the Dog

    (00:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and James O'Leary Discussion(04:55) - Deborah Paredez interview(58:00) - Southword poem, Mother Tongue by Grace H. ZhouDeborah Paredez is a poet and cultural critic. She is the author of the poetry volumes This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020), and the critical study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke UP, 2009). Her poetry and essays have appeared in Poetry magazine, the New York Times, Los Angele...

    1h 1m

  2. AUG 26

    Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh: Tonn Teaspaigh agus Dánta Eile

    (00:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter Discussion(08:35) - Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh interview(55:48) - Southword poem, A South Ulster Homestead by Mary O'DonnellAilbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh was born in Kerry. She has read at festivals in New York, Paris, Montréal, Berlin and Ballyferriter. In 2012 her poem ‘Deireadh na Feide’ won the O’Neill Poetry Prize. ‘Filleadh ar an gCathair’ was chosen as Ireland’s EU Presidency poem in 2013 and was shortlisted in 2015 for RTE’s ‘A Poem for Ireland’. Coi...

    59 min

  3. JUL 24

    Martín Espada: Floaters

    (00:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter Discussion(08:43) - Martín Espada interview(01:14:46) - Southword poem, When Our Mother Dies by Jenny MitchellMartín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His latest book of poems is called Floaters, winner of the 2021 National Book Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, ...

    1h 18m

  4. JUN 27

    Thomas McCarthy: Prophecy

    (0:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter Discussion(24:23) - Thomas McCarthy interview(1:06:53) - Southword poem, The Woman Who Used To Bleed by Lorraine McArdleThomas McCarthy was born in Co. Waterford and educated at UCC. His many collections of poetry include Pandemonium (2016) and Prophecy (2019). A former Editor of Poetry Ireland Review, he is a member of Aosdána. His diaries, Poetry, Memory and the Party, were published in 2022 by The Gallery Press. His essays will be published by...

    1h 9m

  5. APR 23

    Abigail Parry: I Think We're Alone Now

    (0:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and James O'Leary Discussion(4:00) - Abigail Parry interview(47:23) - Southword poem, My Poetry Isn’t Art Enough by Pragya GogoiI Think We’re Alone Now was supposed to be a book about intimacy: what it might look like in solitude, in partnership, and in terms of collective responsibility. Instead, the poems are preoccupied with pop music, etymology, surveillance equipment and cervical examination, church architecture and beetles. Just about anything, in fact, excep...

    50 min

  6. FEB 9

    Paddy Bushe: Peripheral Vision

    (0:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter Discussion(7:34) - Paddy Bushe interview(51:48) - Southword poem, Perault's Wolf by Tracy GaughanPaddy Bushe was born in Dublin in 1948 and now lives in Waterville, Co. Kerry. He writes in Irish and in English and he is a member of Aosdána. He received the 2006 Oireachtas prize for poetry, the 2006 Michael Hartnett Poetry Award and the 2017 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. In 2020, Dedalus Press published Double Vision, a two-volume publication comp...

    54 min

  7. 12/21/2022

    Paul Muldoon: Howdie-Skelp

    Paul Muldoon is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the most recent, Howdie-Skelp (2021). His other awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 2003 Griffin Prize, the 2015 Pigott Prize, and the 2017 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in County Armagh in 1951, he has lived sine 1987 in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton Universi...

    25 min

  8. 11/25/2022

    Ishion Hutchinson: House of Lords and Commons

    Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of two poetry collections: Far District and House of Lords and Commons. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among others. He is a contributing editor to the literary journ...

    40 min
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The Southword Poetry Podcast is produced by the Munster Literature Centre. Each episode, a guest poet talks in depth about their latest work and shares a few of their poems. We also hear a poem from a recent issue of the literary journal Southword. Sarah Byrne hosted the 2022 season. Clíona Ní Ríordáin hosted the 2024 season. Poets were selected by the hosts, Patrick Cotter and James O’Leary. The Munster Literature Centre is a grateful recipient of funding from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Office of Cork City Council.

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  • Creator
    Munster Literature Centre
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Southword Poetry Podcast
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