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Southword Poetry PodcastAifric Mac Aodha: Old Friends(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter discussion(03:04) – Aifric Mac Aodha interview(42:06) – Southword poem, Mermaid Archipelago by Patrick ChapmanAifric Mac Aodha was born in 1979. Her first collection, Gabháil Syrinx, was published in 2010. She has taught in St Petersburg, New York and Canada and has lectured in old and modern Irish at UCD. She lives in Dublin where she works for the Irish-language publisher, An Gúm. She was the winner of the Oireachtas Prize for Poetry (2017) and was Irish-Language Writer-in-Residence at Dublin City University (DCU) in 2023. She has published two bilingual collections...
2025-12-2243 minSouthword Poetry PodcastIsabelle Baafi: Chaotic Good(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter discussion(06:39) – Isabelle Baafi interview(40:41) – Southword poem, Aching Embouchure by Ellen ZhangIsabelle Baafi is the author of Chaotic Good (Faber & Faber / Wesleyan University Press, 2025), which is a Poetry Book Society (PBS) Recommendation, and Ripe (ignitionpress, 2020), which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was a PBS Pamphlet Choice. Her writing has been published in Granta, the TLS, The Poetry Review, Callaloo, The London Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a Ledbury Poetry Critic and an Obsidian Foundation Fellow. She edits at Poetry London and Magma.This week's Sou...
2025-12-1243 minSouthword Poetry PodcastGerry Murphy: The Humours of Nothingness(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter discussion(08:38) – Gerry Murphy interview(47:21) – Southword poem, Mrs. Violet Club by Polina Cosgrave Gerry Murphy is an Irish poet, born in Cork in 1952. His first poetry collection was A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards (1985, 1992). He has since published many collections with The Dedalus Press including Rio de la Plata and All That (1993), The Empty Quarter (1995), Extracts from the Lost Log-Book of Christopher Columbus (1999), Torso of an Ex-Girlfriend (2002), My Flirtation with International Socialism (2010), Muse (2015) and The Humours of Nothingness (2020). He has published two chapbooks with Southword Editions, Kissing Maura O’Ke...
2025-11-1949 minSouthword Poetry PodcastDavid Nash: No Man's Land(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter discussion(03:09) – David Nash interview(48:19) – Southword poem, Soap and Bones by Jerm CurtinDavid Nash was born in Co. Cork and lives between Ireland and Chile. His work is widely published in journals, and his texts have appeared in numerous art exhibitions and books, including for Wolfgang Tillmans at IMMA. A Spanish-language children’s book, Bajo Mis Pies, came out in 2020, as did two translations of books on the cultural history of Chile. He writes for Harpers Bazaar Korea and Elle Korea, and essays have appeared in the Irish Ti...
2025-11-1150 min
Page Fright: A Poetry Podcast111. The Other Mind in a Poem w/ Daniel CowperDaniel Cowper returns to talk about his new novel in verse, Kingdom of the Clock. Andrew asks about writing long poems. It's a poetic chat!Daniel Cowper is a poet and writer from Bowen Island, BC. His poetry has appeared in publications in Canada, the USA, and Ireland, including Arc Poetry, Vallum, Southword, and Barren, and has been long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize. A chapbook of his poetry, The God of Doors, was published by Frog Hollow Press in 2017, as winner of its chapbook contest, and Grotesque Tenderness, a full-length collection, was published by McGill-Queens University...
2025-10-3056 min
Behind The ShieldDaragh Fleming (The Power of Poetry, Emotional Connection and Basketball) - Episode 1150Daragh Fleming is an early career writer from Ireland who uses wit and an introspective lens to delve into the subleties of the human experience. He is an author, writer, poet, performer and award-winning mental health blogger from Cork, Ireland. He holds an MA in Linguistics, a BA in Applied Psychology, and a passion for mental health.Daragh’s debut in non-fiction – Lonely Boy – a collection of essays on mental health arrived on November 24th 2022 and has been well-received. Daragh hit the ground running with two collections of short stories published by Riversong Books back to back in 201...
2025-10-161h 26Southword Poetry PodcastJoyelle McSweeney: Death Styles(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter discussion(03:20) – Joyelle McSweeney interview(54:50) – Southword poem, Another Beginning by Triin PajaGuggenheim Fellow Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, drama and prose, a well-known critic, and a vital publisher of international literature in translation. McSweeney's recent book, Toxicon and Arachne (Nightboat Books, 2020), was called "frightening and brilliant" by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker and earned her the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her 2014 essay collection, The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, is widely regarded as a visionary work of eco-cri...
2025-09-2556 minSouthword Poetry PodcastTraci Brimhall: Love Prodigal(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter discussion(11:24) – Traci Brimhall interview(57:24) – Southword poem, The Orange by Viviana FiorentinoTraci Brimhall is a professor of creative writing and narrative medicine at Kansas State University. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Love Prodigal (published November 2024 by Copper Canyon). Her poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and Best American Poetry. She’s received fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, the National Parks Service, the Academy of American Poe...
2025-08-2559 minSouthword Poetry PodcastMichael O’Loughlin: Liberty Hall(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter discussion(07:47) – Michael O’Loughlin interview(01:02:15) – Southword poem, Before I stillbirthed the birch by Katie GriffithsMichael O’Loughlin was born in Dublin in 1958 and studied at Trinity College Dublin. He has published six collections of poetry, including Another Nation: New and Selected Poems (1996), In This Life (2011) and Poems: 1980–2015, published by New Island Books (2017). O'Loughlin is a regular contributor to The Irish Times and has published numerous translations, critical essays, reviews and screenplays. He has been Writer in Residence in Galway City and County, Writer Fellow at Trinity College...
2025-08-061h 05
Irish with Mollie#32 Daragh Fleming - PoetEpisode 32: Daragh Fleming is a poet, writer, and mental health advocate from Cork, Ireland. With a background in psychology and linguistics, his work explores themes of identity, vulnerability, and resilience. He has published multiple poetry collections—including Notes For A Mid-Youth Crisis and Enigmatic—alongside fiction and non-fiction titles such as Lonely Boy. His writing has appeared in journals like Southword, Crannóg, and Paris Lit Up, and he’s received several accolades, including the From The Well Short Story Prize. A passionate mental health advocate, Daragh is the founder of the blog Thoughts Too Big, works with ch...
2025-07-1433 min
Rattle Poetryep. 288 - Partridge BoswellPartridge Boswell is author of the 2023 Fool for Poetry Prize-winning chapbook Levis Corner House (Southword Editions, Munster Literature Centre) and Grolier Poetry Prize-winning collection Some Far Country Partridge is co-founder of Bookstock Literary Festival and teaches at Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters in Montreal. His poems have recently found homes in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Ireland Review, Southword and The Moth. He lives with his family in Vermont and troubadours widely with the poetry/music group Los Lorcas, whose debut release Last Night in America is available on Thunder Ridge Records.
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2025-04-061h 51
The Sharon Fitzmaurice PodcastFrom Numbness to Purpose: Daragh Fleming’s Journey Through Loss, Mental Health, and Healing Through WordsAnother powerful and open conversation this week with my guest Daragh Fleming from Cork in Ireland. Daragh lost his best friend through suicide at the age of 17 and he shares how he got lost in himself, not being able to feel any emotion. He started to heal through writing and connected back to his vulnerability and truth. In doing so, he wrote his first book - Lonely Boy which in turn would help him to connect to others and become an advocate for breaking the stigma of mental health.Daragh has gone onto to write...
2025-02-2754 minSouthword Poetry PodcastMatthew Dickman: Husbandry(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and James O’Leary Discussion(03:30) – Matthew Dickman interview(56:35) – Southword poem, Missing by Daragh ByrneMatthew Dickman grew up in Lents, a working-class area of Portland, Oregon. He earned a BA at the University of Oregon and an MFA at the University of Texas-Austin’s Michener Center. He is the author of the poetry collections Husbandry (2022), Wonderland (2018), Mayakovsky's Revolver (2014), 50 American Poems (cowritten with Michael Dickman, 2012), and All American Poem (2008).This week's Southword poem is 'Missing' by Daragh Byrne, which appears in issue 43. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find out ho...
2024-12-2358 minSouthword Poetry PodcastJohn W. Sexton: Visions at Templeglantine(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and James O’Leary Discussion(02:46) - John W. Sexton interview(01:00:32) - Southword poem, Doors Opening, Doors Closing by Aidan MatthewsJohn W. Sexton was born in 1958 and identifies with the Aisling poetic tradition. His work spans vision poetry, contemporary fabulism and tangential surrealism. He is the author of seven poetry collections including The Offspring of the Moon (Salmon Poetry 2013), Futures Pass (Salmon Poetry 2018), Visions at Templeglantine (Revival Press 2020) and The Nothingness Kit (Beir Bua Press 2022). A chapbook of his surrealist poetry, Inverted Night, came out from SurVision in April 2019. His next...
2024-12-131h 05Southword Poetry PodcastGail McConnell: The Sun Is Open(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and James O’Leary Discussion(03:32) - Gail McConnell interview(01:01:50) - Southword poem, 13.58, January 28th 2022 by James McDermottGail McConnell is from Belfast. She is the author of of The Sun is Open (Penned in the Margins, 2021) and two poetry pamphlets: Fothermather (Ink Sweat & Tears, 2019) and Fourteen (Green Bottle Press, 2018). Fothermather was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. Gail’s poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, PN Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Blackbox Manifold and Stand, and she is the recipient of two awards from the Arts Council of Northern Ir...
2024-12-091h 03Southword Poetry PodcastPaisley Rekdal: West A Translation(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 McGlincheyRekdal 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 Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies, and an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of the poetry collections West: A Translation (2023), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; A Crash of Rhinos (2000); Six Girl...
2024-11-051h 04Southword Poetry PodcastDeborah Paredez: Year of the Dog(00:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and James O'Leary Discussion(04:55) - Deborah Paredez interview(58:00) - Southword poem, Mother Tongue by Grace H. ZhouDeborah 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: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke UP, 2009). Her poetry and essays have appeared in Poetry magazine, the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She is the cofounder and...
2024-09-121h 01Southword Poetry PodcastAilbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh: Tonn Teaspaigh agus Dánta Eile(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'DonnellAilbhe 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 Poetry Prize. ‘Filleadh ar an gCathair’ was chosen as Ireland’s EU Presidency poem in 2013 and was shortlisted in 2015 for RTE’s ‘A Poem for Ireland’. Coiscéim published her first book Péacadh (2008) and Tost agus Allagar (2016). The latter won the Michael...
2024-08-2659 minSouthword Poetry PodcastMartín Espada: Floaters(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 MitchellMartín 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 Massachusetts Book Award, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the PEN/Revson...
2024-07-241h 17Southword Poetry PodcastThomas McCarthy: Prophecy(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 McArdleThomas 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 Review, he is a member of Aosdána. His diaries, Poetry, Memory and the Party, were published in 2022 by The Gallery Press. His essays will be published by The Gallery later this year and his new collection, Plenitude, will be published by Carca...
2024-06-271h 08
Poet Talk on WMUAHeather TreselerHeather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations (Bauhan, 2024), which received the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and the 2024 Shelia Margaret Motton Book Award, and Parturition (Southword, 2020), which received the 2019 chapbook award from the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. Her poems appear in The American Scholar, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, Cincinnati Review, PN Review, The Irish Times, JAMA, Narrative, The Missouri Review, and The Iowa Review, among other journals.
Treseler's essays appear in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, PN Review, and in eight books about contemporary...
2024-06-1358 min
London Writers' Salon#107: Niamh Mulvey — Writing Literary Fiction, Short Stories & Navigating The Publishing Industry, Creating Memorable CharactersShort story and literary novelist and former Hachette Editor, Niamh Mulvey on how to create memorable characters, finding her voice as a writer after years of failing, overcoming rejection and what she’s learned from her years in the publishing industry. *ABOUT NIAMH MULVEYNiamh Mulvey is from Kilkenny, Ireland. Her short fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, Banshee and Southword and was shortlisted for the Seán O’Faoláin Prize for Short Fiction 2020. Her short story collection Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth was published by Picador. The Amendme...
2024-06-1159 minSouthword Poetry PodcastAbigail Parry: I Think We're Alone Now(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 GogoiI 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 preoccupied with pop music, etymology, surveillance equipment and cervical examination, church architecture and beetles. Just about anything, in fact, except what intimacy is or looks like. So this is a book that runs on failure, and also...
2024-04-2350 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 893 - Niamh Mulvey's The AmendmentsNiamh Mulvey's first book, the short story collection Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth was published by Picador in June 2022. Her short fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, Banshee and Southword and was shortlisted for the Seán O’Faoláin Prize for Short Fiction 2020. In this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel The Amendments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-04-2331 min
The Stinging Fly PodcastClaire-Louise Bennett Reads Lucy Sweeney ByrneOn this month’s episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by writer Claire-Louise Bennett to read and discuss Lucy Sweeney Byrne’s short story, ‘To Cure a Body’ originally published in Issue 35, Volume 2, a special Fear & Fantasy issue, guested edited by Mia Gallagher. You can access the story here.
Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire and studied literature and drama at the University of Roehampton, before moving to Ireland where she worked in and studied theatre for several years. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize and went on to complete her debut book, Pond...
2024-02-291h 04Southword Poetry PodcastPaddy Bushe: Peripheral Vision(0:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter Discussion(7:34) - Paddy Bushe interview(51:48) - Southword poem, Perault's Wolf by Tracy GaughanPaddy 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 Michael Hartnett Poetry Award and the 2017 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. In 2020, Dedalus Press published Double Vision, a two-volume publication comprising Second Sight, the author's own selection of his Irish language poems, accompanied by the autho...
2024-02-0953 min
Poetry BitesLauren O'Donovan: 'The Day You Were Born'Lauren O'Donovan reads 'The Day You Were Born'.
Lauren was Highly Commended in the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.
Lauren O’Donovan is a writer from Cork, Ireland. In 2023, she won the Cúirt New Writing Prize in Poetry and was also shortlisted for Listowel Writers’ Week Collection Award and the Fish Poetry Prize. In 2022, Lauren was awarded Arts Council funding to work towards her first collection along with a Munster Literature Centre Mentorship. She has published work in journals and anthologies such as: Rattle Magazine, Southword, Skylight 47, The Galway Review, The Galway Advertiser, The Honest Ulste...
2024-01-1701 min
Poetry BitesLauren O'Donovan: 'Ingredients for a Mother'Lauren O'Donovan reads 'Ingredients for a Mother'.
Lauren was Highly Commended in the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.
Lauren O’Donovan is a writer from Cork, Ireland. In 2023, she won the Cúirt New Writing Prize in Poetry and was also shortlisted for Listowel Writers’ Week Collection Award and the Fish Poetry Prize. In 2022, Lauren was awarded Arts Council funding to work towards her first collection along with a Munster Literature Centre Mentorship. She has published work in journals and anthologies such as: Rattle Magazine, Southword, Skylight 47, The Galway Review, The Galway Advertiser, The Honest Ulsterman, A New...
2024-01-1501 min
Typewriter TalksEpisode 20: Brian PetkashThis week our guest is Brian Petkash. Brian grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, a focal point of much of his writing (and much of his sports heartache). A former high school literature and creative writing teacher, he lives in Tampa with his partner Celeste and works as a marketing professional in both the game and comic book industries. Brian holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Tampa. His work has appeared in El Portal, Bridge Eight Literary Magazine, Southword, and Midwestern Gothic. Mistakes by the Lake, his collection of stories published by Madville Publishing, is out now...
2023-09-0731 min
Planet Poet - Words in SpaceAlison Carb Sussman - Black Wool CapePlanet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my podcast (broadcast on WIOX radio January 3, 2023) featuring award-winning poet Alison Carb Sussman, who will discuss and read from her new poetry collection, Black Wool Cape. Planet Poet’s Poet-At-Large, Pamela Manché Pearce, also joins us on the program. In addition to Black Wool Cape, Alison’s new poetry collection published by Unsolicited Press, the poet, a 2015 Pushcart Prize nominee, has garnered numerous awards and publications throughout her writing career. Her chapbook, On the Edge, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2013. Alison won the Abroad Writers’ Conference/Fin...
2023-01-1253 minSouthword Poetry PodcastPaul Muldoon: Howdie-SkelpPaul 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 County Armagh in 1951, he has lived sine 1987 in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.This week's Southword poem is ‘Last’ by Amy Woolard, which appears in issue 43. You can buy single issues...
2022-12-2125 minSouthword Poetry PodcastIshion Hutchinson: House of Lords and CommonsIshion 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 Prize for Poetry and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among others. He is a contributing editor to the literary journals The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art and teaches in the graduate writing program at Cornell...
2022-11-2540 minSouthword Poetry PodcastSusannah Dickey: Oh!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 an Eric Gregory Award winner, a prize granted for a collection by poets under the age of 30. Her debut poetry collection, Isdal, will be published in 2023. She is the author of Tennis Lessons (2020) and Common Decency (2022), both published by Doubleday UK.This...
2022-11-0740 minSouthword Poetry PodcastDean Browne: Kitchens at NightDean 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 Stinging Fly, and elsewhere.This week's Southword poem is ‘Egyptian Wing’ by Heather Treseler, which appears in issue 41. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find out how to submit to Southword here.
2022-10-2428 minSouthword Poetry PodcastMolly Twomey: Raised Among VulturesMolly 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. In 2021, she was chosen for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series and awarded an Arts Council Literature Bursary. Her debut collection, Raised Among Vultures, will be published in May 2022 with The Gallery Press.This week's Southword poem is ‘Reading Ilya Kaminsky’ by Gerard Smyth...
2022-10-1036 minSouthword Poetry PodcastShangyang Fang: Burying the MountainShangyang 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 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize. His name, Shangyang, originating from Chinese mythology, was a one-legged bird whose dance brought forth flood and rain. His debut is Burying the Mountain from Copper Canyon Press.This week's Southword poem is ‘The Last Koda...
2022-09-2641 minSouthword Poetry PodcastCiaran O'Driscoll: Angel HourCiaran 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 published his childhood memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves (2001). His novel, A Year’s Midnight, was published by Pighog Press (2012). His awards include the James Joyce Prize and the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. His poem ‘Please Hold’ (featured in Forward’s anthology Poems of the Deca...
2022-09-1242 minSouthword Poetry PodcastJenna Clake: Museum of Ice CreamJenna 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 debut novel Disturbance will be published by Trapeze (UK) and Norton (US) in 2023. Follow her on Twitter.This week's Southword poem is 'The Quarry Lake' by Bernadette McCarthy, which appears in issue 41. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find...
2022-08-2942 minSouthword Poetry PodcastCameron Awkward-Rich: DispatchCameron 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 his PhD from Stanford University's program in Modern Thought & Literature. His more critical writing can be found in Signs, Trans Studies Quarterly, American Quarterly and elsewhere, and has been supported by fellowships from Duke University's Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the ACLS. His book...
2022-08-1542 minSouthword Poetry PodcastVictoria Kennefick: Eat or We Both StarveVictoria 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. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Book Award. It was a book of the year in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Telegraph, The Sunday Independent and The White Review. Her pamphlet, White Whale (Southword Editions, 2015), won the Munster Literature Centre’s Fool for Poetry International Ch...
2022-08-0137 minSouthword Poetry PodcastEpisode 1 Coming 1st AugustThe 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/
2022-07-1200 min
Words Lightly SpokenWLS 147 Bernadette Gallagher reads Coming HomeBernadette Gallagher reads her poem Coming Home in this episode of Words Lightly Spoken, a podcast of poetry from Ireland. Bernadette’s work has appeared in newspapers and journals, including Issue 41 of Southword. The Words Lightly Spoken podcast is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and is a Rockfinch production.
2021-10-2202 min
Otherppl with Brad Listi729. Louise NealonLouise Nealon is the author of the debut novel Snowflake (Harper Books), a #1 International Bestseller. It is the official September pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club.Nealon is a writer from County Kildare, Ireland. In 2017, she won the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition and was the recipient of the Francis Ledwidge Creative Writing Award. She has been published in the Irish Times, Southword, and The Open Ear. Nealon received a degree in English literature from Trinity College Dublin in 2014 and a master's degree in creative writing from Queen's University Belfast in 2016. She lives...
2021-09-291h 51
dlr Soundcloud"The will to live" - the best of memoirs with writer Madeline Beach CareyWriter Madeline Beach Carey discusses some of her favourite memoirs including:
Tove Ditlevsen's trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency
Deborah Levy’s Living Autobiography: Things I Want to Know, The Cost of Living, Real Estate
Edward Said's Out of Place
Madeline is the author of the story collection Les filles dels altres. Her
work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in El Món d’Ahir, de/rail, RIC Journal, The Sultan’s Seal, The Momentist, Southword, Full Stop, and elsewhere. Carey has been the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference,the Edward Albee Foundation, Faber Residency, Hawthornden Castle, Greywo...
2021-09-2248 min
Dave Mac's Local LegendMel O' Doherty On Debut Novel "Fallen"Fallen is Mel O’Doherty’s debut novel. When Michael Connolly was a child in the 1970s, his mother Elaine told him about all the things that happened to her in that place. All that the nuns had done. The doctors encouraged Elaine to talk, and talk she did. She even tried to tell the public. She wrote letters to the newspapers. She made signs and picketed Mass. The good pious parishioners silenced her. The doctors told her she was delusional. Her husband didn’t post her letters. Her son didn’t believe her. Three decades later, still caught in the guil...
2021-06-2303 min
The Gen Pop Podcast#33 Louise Nealon - A discussion on mental healthLouise Nealon is a writer from County Kildare. She received a degree in English literature from Trinity College Dublin in 2014 and a master’s degree in creative writing from Queen’s University Belfast in 2016. In 2017, she won the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition. Her short stories have been published in the Irish Times, Southword and The Stinging Fly. Her debut novel, Snowflake, was released in May 2021. She currently lives on the dairy farm where she was raised with her family.In this episode , we touch on a piece Louise wrote for The Independent, titled ‘The biggest...
2021-06-0938 min
Basement Poetry Podcast"Kind" by James OwensToday we will be taking a look at the poem “Kind” by James Owens
This poem originally appeared in the summer 2020 issue of Chestnut Review.
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James Owens Bio:
James Owens’s newest book is Family Portrait with Scythe (Bottom Dog Press, 2020). His poems and translations appear widely in liter- ary journals, including upcoming publications in Atlanta Review, The Shore, The Windhover, and Southword. He earned an MFA at the Uni- versity of Alabama and lives in a small town in northern Ontario.
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2020-10-1311 min
Florida Writer PodcastBrian Petkash -- Fiction AuthorBrian Petkash’s award-winning stories have appeared in Midwestern Gothic and Southword, among other publications. Mistakes by the Lake, a collection of Cleveland-centric stories published by Madville Publishing, is out now. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Brian currently lives in Tampa, Florida, where he remains an avid fan of Cleveland sports. https://brianpetkash.com
2020-09-0721 minThe Florida Writer PodcastBrian Petkash -- Fiction AuthorBrian Petkash’s award-winning stories have appeared in Midwestern Gothic and Southword, among other publications. Mistakes by the Lake, a collection of Cleveland-centric stories published by Madville Publishing, is out now. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Brian currently lives in Tampa, Florida, where he remains an avid fan of Cleveland sports. https://brianpetkash.com
2020-09-0721 min
The Nerve: An English and Arts PodcastEp 15: Counterparts and Creative Writing with Danielle McLaughlinThis special episode of The Nerve sees writer Danielle McLaughlin join Dr. Jenny O’Connor in the studio, alongside Creative Writing lecturer Margaret O’Brien and English students Brandon Collins and Dylan Phelan. Danielle McLaughlin is the current UCC Writer-in-Residence and her stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Southword, The New Yorker and have been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4. Her debut collection of short storiesDinosaurs on Other Planets was published in Ireland, the UK, the US and Slovakia. Last year, she edited Counterparts, an anthology of work by w...
2019-02-1134 minThe Nerve: An English and Arts PodcastEp 15: Counterparts and Creative Writing with Danielle McLaughlinThis special episode of The Nerve sees writer Danielle McLaughlin join Dr. Jenny O’Connor in the studio, alongside Creative Writing lecturer Margaret O’Brien and English students Brandon Collins and Dylan Phelan. Danielle McLaughlin is the current UCC Writer-in-Residence and her stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Southword, The New Yorker and have been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4. Her debut collection of short storiesDinosaurs on Other Planets was published in Ireland, the UK, the US and Slovakia. Last year, she edited Counterparts, an anthology of work by w...
2019-02-1134 min
SouthWordSunny Side Up Episode 15 | Positivity for good healthSunny Side Up Episode 15
Celebrated 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 and positive thoughts, the stronger your ability to remain grateful and positive, even during difficult times.
2018-10-0500 min
SouthWordSentiment analysis for seamless governance by Usha RamanathanLawyer 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 Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those arguments.
Aadhaar will take India to an Orwellian reality. This is evidenced in a tender floated by the Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited - or...
2018-09-2600 min
SouthWordAadhaar, a noose for transgender community by Jayna KothariJayna 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 country.
Have you ever wondered if declaring your gender a violation of privacy? Transgender and intersex individuals go through multiple gender markers throughout their lives. Their identity documents may therefore have different gender markers. Declaring gender for Aadhaar is problematic...
2018-09-2600 min
SouthWordDeath by Aadhaar by Usha RamanathanLawyer 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 Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those arguments.
Failure of biometric authentication is one of Aadhaar's biggest drawbacks, which has led to denial of benefits and services and even deaths. This failure...
2018-09-2600 min
SouthWordTrickle Up theory and the 'death of privacy' by Usha RamanathanLawyer 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 Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those arguments.
Data is the new oil. And with Aadhaar, it will be possible for the 1% of the rich to use the personally identifiable information of...
2018-09-2600 min
SouthWordThe U in UIDAI by Usha RamanathanLawyer 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 Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those arguments.
The stated goal of UIDAI/Aadhaar is to eliminate ghosts and fakes and deduplicate people. This, it first said, would be done on the...
2018-09-2600 min
SouthWordSunny Side Up Episode 14 | Commitments and your self-esteemSunny Side Up Episode 14
Celebrated 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 about ourselves, our failures and our relationships, in episode 14 of Sunny Side Up.
2018-09-1400 min
SouthWordSunny Side Up Episode 13 | Identity and your self-esteemSunny Side Up Episode 13
Celebrated 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 innumerable comparisons, and tells us how she sailed through them without denting her self-esteem.
2018-08-2400 min
SouthWordSunny Side Up Episode 12 | Overcoming hurt and disappointmentSunny Side Up Episode 12
Celebrated 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 harbour, says Anu Hasan on episode 12 of Sunny Side Up.
2018-08-1000 min
SouthWordSunny Side Up Episode 11 | Money and happinessSunny Side Up Episode 11
Celebrated 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 them. But despite this, I am very confident of my place in this world..." Anu Hasan tells us about the source of her self-assured happiness in this candid episode of Sunny...
2018-07-2700 min
SouthWordThe Pipette Episode 7 | Is economics a science?The Pipette Episode 7
Small 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 elements from psychology. In this episode of The Pipette, Prof Balaram considers a questions that is often asked. Is economics a science? And the corollary, has science influenced economics?
2018-07-1700 min
SouthWordSunny Side Up Episode 10 | Society and YouSunny Side Up Episode 10
Celebrated 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", says Anu Hasan urging us to live our lives on the the strength of our own convictions and not others' expectations.
2018-07-1300 min
SouthWordHappyness Episode 6 | Coping with randomnessHappyness Episode 6
India’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. Dr Yusuf Merchant tells us how to do this with three simple exercises.
2018-07-0600 min
SouthWordSunny Side Up Episode 9 | Coping with the pastSunny Side Up Episode 9
Celebrated 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 'if only' and 'how I wish I hadn't'. Anu Hasan talks to us about her experiences of coping with her past mistakes.
2018-06-2900 min
SouthWordHappyness Episode 5 | The meaning of life equals happinessHappyness Episode 5
India’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 and the same, says Dr Yusuf Merchant as he takes us through his experience of finding a suitable answer to this unique query.
2018-06-2900 min
SouthWordThe Mandate Episode 3 | Is the Proportional Representation suitable for India?The Mandate Episode 3
The 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 Representation method work in the political climate of India? Mr Narasappa highlights the challenges towards incorporating this method in the Indian electoral system, and the need for a national debate on the same.
2018-06-2600 min
SouthWordThe Mandate Episode 2 | Why did India chose the first-past-the-post system?The Mandate Episode 2
The 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 our constitution adopt the first-past-the-post system? Can the proportional representation system solve India's electoral problems? Mr Narasappa answers these questions in the second episode of The Mandate.
2018-06-2600 min
SouthWordThe Mandate Episode 1 | First-past-the-post & Proportional RepresentationThe Mandate Episode 1
The 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 Narasappa talks about the differences between the first-past-the-post system and the proportional system used for conducting elections.
2018-06-2600 min
SouthWordPoeseme | Refugee by Jon VeinbergSugata 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. Jon Veinberg was a poet born in Germany in 1947 after his family fled Soviet occupied Estonia. Around 1950, they emigrated to the United States. On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Sugata Srinivasaraju reads the poem 'Refugee' by Jon Veinberg.
2018-06-2100 min
LongformEpisode 76: Roger D. HodgeRoger D. Hodge is the editor of Oxford American.
"My career isn't all that interesting insofar as I've been an editor. I'm much more interested in talking about writers and stories. That's the main thing: telling these stories, creating this platform, this context for the best possible storytelling."
Thanks to TinyLetter and Random House for sponsoring this week's episode.
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[5:45] The River and The Thread (Rosanne Cash • Blue Note Records • 2014)
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