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Southword Poetry Podcast

Munster Literature Centre

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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 an ...
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(00:00) - Paisley Rekdal interview (53:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter Discussion (01:03:15) - Southword poem, Waiting for the baby by Afric McGlinchey Rekdal grew up in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a Chinese American mother and a Norwegian father. She earned a BA from the University of Washington, an MA from the University of T…
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(00:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and James O'Leary Discussion (04:55) - Deborah Paredez interview (58:00) - Southword poem, Mother Tongue by Grace H. Zhou 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: …
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(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'Donnell 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 Poet…
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(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 Mitchell 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 Ma…
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(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 McArdle 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 Revi…
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(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 Gogoi 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 preocc…
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(0:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter Discussion (7:34) - Paddy Bushe interview (51:48) - Southword poem, Perault's Wolf by Tracy Gaughan Paddy 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 …
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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 Count…
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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…
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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 longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award. She is a…
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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, Poetry Review, PN Review, Southword, The Stin…
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Molly Twomey grew up in Lismore, County Waterford, and graduated in 2019 with an MA in Creative Writing from University College Cork. She has been published in Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, The Irish Times, Mslexia, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. She runs an online international poetry event, Just to Say, sponsored by Jacar Press.…
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Shangyang Fang grew up in Chengdu, China, and composes poems both in English and Chinese. While studying civil engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, he realized his bigger passion lies in the architecture of language and became a poetry fellow at Michener Center for Writers. He is the recipient of the Joy Harjo Poetry Award and G…
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Ciaran O’Driscoll lives in Limerick. A member of Aosdána, he has published ten books of poetry, including Gog and Magog (1987), Moving On, Still There: New and Selected Poems (2001), and Surreal Man (2006). His work has been translated into many languages. Angel Hour (SurVision, 2021) is his most recent full collection. Liverpool University Press p…
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Jenna Clake's debut collection of poetry Fortune Cookie won the Melita Hume prize in 2016, and was published in 2017 by Eyewear. It received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2018, and was shortlisted for a Somerset Maugham Award in the same year. Her second collection Museum of Ice Cream was published by Bloodaxe in 2021. Her de…
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Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of two collections of poetry: Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016) and Dispatch (Persea Books, 2019). His creative work has been supported by fellowships from Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, and the Lannan Foundation. Also a scholar of trans theory and expressive culture in the U.S., Cameron earned …
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Victoria Kennefick's debut poetry collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2022 and was awarded the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year 2022. Most recently, it has been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. In 2021, it was shortlisted for both the T.S. El…
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The Southword Poetry Podcast, hosted by Sarah Byrne, launches it's first episode on 1st August with guest poet Victoria Kennefick. Released every two weeks, we'll have ten episodes in 2022. Produced by the Munster Literature Centre https://www.munsterlit.ie/על ידי Munster Literature Centre
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Sunny Side Up Episode 15Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook.Gratitude strengthens the immune system, lowers blood pressure and reduces symptoms of illness. Anu Hasan compares a person's attitude to a muscle. The more you exercise your 'positivity muscle' with gratitude a…
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Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalor…
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Jayna Kothari is a co-founder of the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore and practices as a Counsel in the Karnataka High Court and the Supreme Court of India. In this 5-part series on the Aadhaar project by UIDAI, Kothari explains the impact of Aadhaar's mandatory gender disclosure clause on the rights of the sexual minorities of the c…
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Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalor…
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Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalor…
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Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalor…
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Sunny Side Up Episode 14Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook.Keeping commitments, while sometimes stressful, has well established perks, but did you know that it is also an important tool towards self-esteem? Anu Hasan tells us how keeping our commitments can teach us abo…
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Sunny Side Up Episode 13Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook.At some point or another, each one of us gets compared to someone else - someone more successful than us, smarter than us or better looking than us. Anu Hasan shares her stories on being the subject of innumerab…
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Sunny Side Up Episode 12Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook.Moments of hurt and disappointment are inevitable in life. Our success in navigating relationships during such times depends not on the number of battles we fight and win, but on how much bitterness we choose to…
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Sunny Side Up Episode 11Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook. "Anyone who knows my family background, knows that I have not been as prodigious an actor as some in my family. I am not as rich as some of them, I am not as good looking as some of them or as clever as some of…
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The Pipette Episode 7Small doses of science and society by Padma Bhushan awardee Prof P Balaram.The methods of science have clearly made inroads into the domains of economics and finance. Physicians and mathematicians have been employed in large number by western financial institutions. Behavioural economics is a discipline that draws its essential…
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Sunny Side Up Episode 10Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook."As long as I wasn't breaking the law, there was nothing wrong in being different. There is nothing wrong in doing something that other people aren't doing. All that matters is whether you are happy and content"…
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Happyness Episode 6India’s leading anti-drug crusader, Dr Yusuf Merchant, explains the concept of happiness and how we can achieve it in our lives.How do we cope with the randomness that is inherent in the world around us? Events, environment and people are all outside our realm of control and the key to happiness is to find a certainty from within…
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Sunny Side Up Episode 9Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook.How often have we heard the statement, "Oh we all make mistakes, it's ok"? But do we always believe that? Some of the mistakes we have made in the past shame us and often come back to haunt us with refrains of 'i…
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Happyness Episode 5India’s leading anti-drug crusader, Dr Yusuf Merchant, explains the concept of happiness and how we can achieve it in our lives.What is the meaning of life? A loaded question that many of us wonder, sometimes even ask aloud, but mostly shelve for another time. The answer to the meaning of life and the meaning of happiness is one …
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The Mandate Episode 3The Mandate is a three part series by Harish Narasappa on the history of the two dominant electoral systems: first-past-the-post system and proportional representation system, and its implications in India.Mr Narasappa is a lawyer and member of the Karnataka Election Watch and the National Election Watch.Will the Proportional R…
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The Mandate Episode 2The Mandate is a three part series by Harish Narasappa on the history of the two dominant electoral systems: first-past-the-post system and proportional representation system, and its implications in India.Mr Narasappa is a lawyer and member of the Karnataka Election Watch and the National Election Watch.Why did the drafters of…
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The Mandate Episode 1The Mandate is a three part series by Harish Narasappa on the history of the two dominant electoral systems: first-past-the-post system and proportional representation system, and its implications in India.Mr Narasappa is a lawyer and member of the Karnataka Election Watch and the National Election Watch.In this episode, Mr Nar…
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Sugata Srinivasaraju reads a poem a week to confront the times we are living in.More people have now been forced to flee their homes by conflict and crisis than at any time since World War II. More recently, the United States' "zero-tolerance" immigration policy saw thousands of children forcibly separated from their parents at the Mexican border. …
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