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The EssayThe Early YearsThe poet Michael Longley, who died on 22nd January 2025 at the age of 85, was described by Seamus Heaney as 'a keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders.' He devoted a lifetime to the art of poetry and won numerous poetry prizes.In Episode 1 of this series of The Essay, first broadcast in 2024 and recorded to mark his 85th birthday, he talked with presenter Olivia O'Leary about his home town of Belfast and his love of jazz, saying that, 'Good poetry for me combines two things: meaning and melody.' He also loved...
2025-02-1313 min
Trinity Long Room Hub PodcastsTLRH | Mahon’s defence of poetryA keynote lecture delivered by Edna Longley as part of the 'Derek Mahon: Conference to celebrate poet’s life and work'.
The life and work of poet Derek Mahon will be celebrated (Friday 19th & Saturday 20th November) in Trinity College Dublin. A conference, which is being held in advance of what would have been the poet’s 80th birthday, has been organised by Trinity’s School of English in association with Poetry Ireland and will be hosted in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
To mark the occasion an online exhibition entitled Derek Mahon: Piecing Together the Poet h...
2022-01-2755 min
ICC HammersmithNorthern Irish Voices: Michael Longley in conversation with Anne MorrisonMichael Longley discusses his most recent publication, The Candlelight Master (2020), in conversation with Anne Morrison. About Michael Longley: born in Belfast, Michael Longley, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of 12 collections of poetry, has been a central figure in the poetry of Northern Ireland since the 1960s. From his first collection, No Continuing City: Poems 1963-1968 (1969) to his most recent publication, The Candlelight Master (2020), he has received numerous awards for his work. These include the Whitbread Poetry Prize (1991), the American Ireland Fund Literary Award (1996), the T.S. Eliot Prize (2000), the Hawthornden Prize (2000), the Wi...
2021-04-181h 00
The Numberphile PodcastThe Parker Quiz - with Matt ParkerMatt Parker takes a quiz prepared by Brady. The YouTube version of this quiz contains a few visuals.
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2020-05-2155 min
Experience An Powerful Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Rock, Paper, Scissors by Richard OsmondPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/366248to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Author: Richard Osmond
Narrator: Richard Osmond
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 0 minutes
Release date: June 13, 2019
Genres: Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
Richard Osmond won the Seamus Heaney Prize for his widely praised first collection, Useful Verses. His second, Rock, Paper, Scissors, presents an extraordinary, collaged response to the poet’s direct experience of the terrorist attack in London on June 3rd, 2017. Osmond has written a powerful and challenging collection of original poems representing the complex, fragmentary nature of traumatic experience. Interleaved with these are translated excerpts of two ve...
2019-06-1300 minUnlock Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, PoetryRock, Paper, Scissors by Richard OsmondPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/366248to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Author: Richard Osmond
Narrator: Richard Osmond
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 0 minutes
Release date: June 13, 2019
Genres: Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
Richard Osmond won the Seamus Heaney Prize for his widely praised first collection, Useful Verses. His second, Rock, Paper, Scissors, presents an extraordinary, collaged response to the poet’s direct experience of the terrorist attack in London on June 3rd, 2017. Osmond has written a powerful and challenging collection of original poems representing the complex, fragmentary nature of traumatic experience. Interleaved with these are translated excerpts of two ve...
2019-06-1300 min
Action Science TheatreInflated EgoPfffff. Pfffff. Pffffff. There we go. I’ve tied 37 balloons to this chair, that should be enough to get me to the moon.Here I go – and release! Oh. Why aren’t I going up? This is awkward. Now I look ridiculous. Oh well, while I untie all these balloons why don’t you settle in and take a listen to this little beauty?Do you remember Edna Egerton from Episode 2? No? Well, go back and listen to that. Okay? Right, this time we visit her a bit earlier in her career when she, like me, is m...
2014-02-0225 min
Front Row WeeklyFR: Tamsin Greig; Stephen Fry; Seamus Heaney tributeActress Tamsin Greig; Stephen Fry on Verdi and Wagner; Edna O'Brien, Colm Toibin, Michael Longley and Hermione Lee pay tribute to Seamus Heaney; reggae group UB40; comedians Nadia Kamil and Mary Bourke on how to make feminism funny.
2013-09-061h 04
Front Row: Archive 2013Seamus Heaney tributeMark Lawson reflects on the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, whose death was announced today. Writers including Edna O'Brien, Colm Toibin, Michael Longley and Hermione Lee consider Seamus Heaney's long writing career, and there's another chance to hear part of a special Front Row interview, recorded before an audience on the occasion of his 70th birthday.Producer Stephen Hughes.
2013-08-3028 min
UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the ArchipelagoScholarcast 16: Poems and ParadigmsIn Poems and Paradigms Edna Longley argues that the archipelagic paradigm is crucial to the criticism of modern poetry in English. Quoting John Kerrigan on the expansive, multi-levelled, polycentric aspects of the literary and cultural field, she discussed five poems which display their archipelagic co-ordinates on the surface: W.B. Yeats’s Under Saturn (1919), Philip Larkin’s The Importance of Elsewhere (1955), W.S. Graham’s Loch Thom (1977), Edward Thomas’s The Ash Grove (1916) and Louis MacNeice’s Carrick Revisited (1945).
For Longley, the poems’ deeper aesthetic dynamics epitomise how influences move around within the archipelago, and she particularly emphasises serial transformations...
2010-05-0600 minUCDscholarcastScholarcast 16: Poems and ParadigmsIn Poems and Paradigms Edna Longley argues that the archipelagic paradigm is crucial to the criticism of modern poetry in English. Quoting John Kerrigan on the expansive, multi-levelled, polycentric aspects of the literary and cultural field, she discussed five poems which display their archipelagic co-ordinates on the surface: W.B. Yeats’s Under Saturn (1919), Philip Larkin’s The Importance of Elsewhere (1955), W.S. Graham’s Loch Thom (1977), Edward Thomas’s The Ash Grove (1916) and Louis MacNeice’s Carrick Revisited (1945).
For Longley, the poems’ deeper aesthetic dynamics epitomise how influences move around within the archipelago, and she particularly emphasises serial transformations of Wordswort...
2010-05-0600 minUCDscholarcastScholarcast 16: Poems and ParadigmsIn Poems and Paradigms Edna Longley argues that the archipelagic paradigm is crucial to the criticism of modern poetry in English. Quoting John Kerrigan on the expansive, multi-levelled, polycentric aspects of the literary and cultural field, she discussed five poems which display their archipelagic co-ordinates on the surface: W.B. Yeats’s Under Saturn (1919), Philip Larkin’s The Importance of Elsewhere (1955), W.S. Graham’s Loch Thom (1977), Edward Thomas’s The Ash Grove (1916) and Louis MacNeice’s Carrick Revisited (1945).
For Longley, the poems’ deeper aesthetic dynamics epitomise how influences move around within the archipelago, and she particularly emphasises serial transformations of Wordswort...
2010-05-0633 min