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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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A weekly podcast with Stephen Lowry & Colin Byrne on life and people with a story and a bit of MMA thrown in
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Greg Webb shares the lifestyle habits that have worked for him over the years. His regular podcasts accompany The Webby Walks Channel on @YouTube
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Podcast series from The Irish Catholic, Ireland’s biggest and best-selling religious newspaper.
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(0:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter Discussion (8:43) - Martín Espada interview (1:14:46) - 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 Massa…
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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: House of Lords and Commons
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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: Eat or We Both Starve
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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/By Munster Literature Centre
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Greg Webb shares health his lifestyle tips in @thewebbywalks Podcast or in Videoblog @YouTube www.thewebbywalks.com
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Greg Webb in Lake Conjola, NSW talks to Gavin Coote about the findings. #TheWebbyWalks
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The Webby Walks talks to Gordon D’Arcy 🏉☘️
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The Webby Talks with former Ireland rugby player @gordonwdarcy🏉☘️
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The Webby Walks is all about living as healthy life style as possible, eating and exercising in moderation. This week Greg Webb talks with former Irish professional rugby player Gordon D’Arcy @thewebbywalks
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NYE - Webby relives NYE with John Hanscombe @mutimes
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‘On New Year’s the fire jumped the lake..... home was gone in 20 minutes’ Greg Webb and Alex Smidt #LakeConjola #thewebbywalks
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Greg Webb on ABC ILLAWARRA with James Valentine 140220
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Webby speaks to James on ABC about all the help available to people after the fires. Greg and Alex lost their Lake Conjola home on NYE like many others. But there’s has been incredible support @thewebbyealks
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The Webby Walks with Greg Webb
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After a year of walks, tips on diet, advice on exercise or food shopping choices, a word of thanks for following the TWW Podcasts 🎁🍰🎂
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Do You Want To Calm Overthinking and Overwhelm?By Paddy Byrne
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Do Cliches Put You Off 'Wellness'? - Day 588
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Overuse of terms like 'gratitude' and 'mindfulness' can block the profoundly personal practice of feeling deep appreciation of all that you already are. Doing rather than judging is the important distinction here....look past cliche and try!By Paddy Byrne
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Good thinking needs daily nourishment from an enriching and sustaining pot. Just like eating, we choose what goes in to feed and grow our thought. Nourish thoughts with positives, feed inspiring options to your best you, the once a day then on your way, impacting all you do.By Paddy Byrne
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Do You Want To Make Better Choices? - Day 586
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Talking with an old friend words popped out that I never thought I’d say, “Every time I meditate I have a better day”. Meditation works! It clears the decks and calms the choppiest of seas, and from a place of stillness you choose well, with reason and clarity.By Paddy Byrne
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Excuses are the words we use to hide truth from ourselves, but simply stop them now and you will free yourself. That our lives are ours is sometimes hard when there are parts that we don’t like, but forgive yourself, be honest, accept and do not hide. Accept the truth that what you want will take some pushing to, drop excuses, they don’t feel good,…
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Choosing positivity does not mean blocking out all pain. It is not negative to feel! Denial is the clogging mud, and truth helps us to heal.By Paddy Byrne
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In distant tomorrows, what is it you’d truly want to read about your past? Think about that now, then set about the task of being as you truly want, here, today, in now. Write the life you dream of with sweat upon your brow, as it will take effort and it will require carving words in stone…"This is who I am, and where my story’s born!" The ink may …
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Do Your Expectations Cause Disappointment? - Day 582
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Expectation is disappointment and anger waiting to happen. We can control what we do but not all the results of our doing, and that’s good, because all the greatness in you is in the now of what you’re pursuing. Put all your focus into what you can control and you care less about what to expect; your goals, your plans, your aspirations become bigge…
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Dissolve conflict by switching from a need to be understood to a need to understand. Think now of someone that you’re banging up against, locking horns or standing firm…then dissolve this gridlock by changing tact from talk to listening. Then watch as the space you’ve given them to breathe and open up, releases tension in both of you, and you made …
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Hindsight is the window to what really floats your boat, so go through last year’s calendar to learn what lit you up the most. And see what depressed you, pulled the rug from underneath, then plan more of the positives and know what stuff to leave.By Paddy Byrne
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Do You Slip Backwards When Things Are Good? - Day 579
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Almost all of the written advice on keeping going, not giving up and persevering, relates to getting through the hard times. But what of when you’re happy? Do we keep on going then? Or do we down the tools that brought us there? Too often we give up the good practices that brought us such good times, but that's when we must keep them up, so that we…
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If you feel stuck in your ways, it's because old habits have dug their heals in and want to stay. It’s called homeostasis, which in essence means we physiologically don’t like change. Equilibrium, the middle ground, is in our DNA. But when you really want change, here’s a way to do it...make it fun! Drop the struggle. Pleasure is how change is prog…
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