Gerry read the following poems: ‘The Clock on a Wall of Farringdon Gardens, August 1971’, ‘Safe Houses’, ‘Child of the Empire’, ‘Refugees’, ‘Quartz’, ‘The Jazz Club’, ‘Fellow Travellers’ and ‘Selfies’.



Gerald Dawe is Professor of English and Fellow Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin, and was founder director of Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre (1998-2015). His poetry is published by The Gallery Press.



The Seamus Heaney Centre Podcast is created in a small back room (and during these times of quarantine, in a series of small back rooms) by Stephen Sexton and Rachel Brown. This episode was produced, and featured original music by Conor McCafferty.



Thanks as always to our guest writers, and to Nick Boyle for his title music.