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Episode 16 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 16 with Deborah Paredez is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Deborah 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…
Episode 15 of the Southword Poetry Podcast out now
Episode 15 with Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Ailbhe 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…
Episode 14 of the Southword Poetry Podcast out now
Episode 14 with Martín Espada is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Martín 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…
Episode 13 of the Southword Poetry Podcast out now
Episode 13 with Thomas McCarthy is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Thomas 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…
Episode 12 of the Southword Poetry Podcast out now
Episode 12 with Abigail Parry is now available anywhere you get podcasts. I 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…
Short Fiction Workshop with Alexander MacLeod 17 Oct – 7 Nov
4-week workshop on Tuesdays 17th & 24th October7 – 9 PM (GMT/UTC +1)31st October & 7th November7 – 9 PM (GMT/UTC +0) €150 Registration12 places availableinfo@munsterlit.ie to book Full prospectus here
Episode 10 of the Southword Poetry Podcast out now
Episode 10 with Paul Muldoon is now available anywhere you get podcasts. 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…
Episode 9 of the Southword Poetry Podcast out now
Episode 9 with Ishion Hutchinson is now available anywhere you get podcasts. 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…
Episode 8 of the Southword Poetry Podcast out now
Episode 8 with Susannah Dickey is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Susannah Dickey grew up in Derry and now lives in London. She is the author of four poetry pamphlets, I had some very slight concerns (2017), genuine human values (2018), bloodthirsty for marriage (2020), and Oh! (2022). In 2019 she won the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, and in 2021 she was…
Episode 7 of the Southword Poetry Podcast out now
Episode 7 with Dean Browne is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Dean Browne won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021 and his pamphlet, Kitchens at Night, was a winner of the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition; it was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022. His poems have appeared widely in journals such as Banshee, Poetry (Chicago), Poetry Ireland Review,…