Best Munster Literature Centre Podcasts (2024)

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Thomas McCarthy: Prophecy 1:08:59

17d ago1:08:59

1:08:59

(0:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter Discussion (23:28) - Thomas McCarthy interview (1:05:58) - 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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Abigail Parry: I Think We're Alone Now 50:05

3M ago50:05

50:05

(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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Paddy Bushe: Peripheral Vision 53:56

5M ago53:56

53:56

(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: Howdie-Skelp 25:21

1+ y ago25:21

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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: House of Lords and Commons 40:13

1+ y ago40:13

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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: Oh! 40:17

1+ y ago40:17

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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: Kitchens at Night 28:56

1+ y ago28:56

28:56

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: Raised Among Vultures 36:00

2y ago36:00

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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: Burying the Mountain 41:36

2y ago41:36

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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: Angel Hour 42:45

2y ago42:45

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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: Museum of Ice Cream 42:39

2y ago42:39

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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: Dispatch 42:14

2y ago42:14

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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: Eat or We Both Starve 37:51

2y ago37:51

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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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Episode 1 Coming 1st August 0:30

2y ago0:30

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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/By Munster Literature Centre

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Southword Poetry Podcast

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Thomas McCarthy: Prophecy 1:08:59

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Abigail Parry: I Think We're Alone Now 50:05

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Paddy Bushe: Peripheral Vision 53:56

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Paul Muldoon: Howdie-Skelp 25:21

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Ishion Hutchinson: House of Lords and Commons 40:13

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Susannah Dickey: Oh! 40:17

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Dean Browne: Kitchens at Night 28:56

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Molly Twomey: Raised Among Vultures 36:00

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Shangyang Fang: Burying the Mountain 41:36

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Ciaran O'Driscoll: Angel Hour 42:45

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Jenna Clake: Museum of Ice Cream 42:39

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Cameron Awkward-Rich: Dispatch 42:14

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Victoria Kennefick: Eat or We Both Starve 37:51

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Episode 1 Coming 1st August 0:30

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