Shows
Mange Tes MotsÉpisode 28 - Ronelda Kamfer : exorcismes, dopplegängers et autres poèmes cruelsCe 28e épisode de Mange tes mots le podcast ! n’est pas tellement de saison, mais on est un peu d’humeur spooky en ce mois de juillet – y’a-t-il vraiment une saison pour être spooky, de toute façon ? Préparez-vous pour une plongée au coeur d'un carnaval où défilent fantômes, démons, exorcisé·es, doppelgängers et autres créatures infernales. Les poète·x·sses de cette anthologie se réapproprient leurs monstres et leurs monstruosités, dans toute leurs ambivalences. Tout s'inverse et se révèle : les loups aux dents longues protègent, les spectres du p...
2025-07-301h 46
The GlimpseSomething Has to Shatter Poet Victoria Kennefick opens the second season of The Glimpse, joining host Seán Hewitt for a discussion of birth and rebirth, self-actualization, and the rewards of keeping your heart open. Kennefick reads her poem “The Ego is Crushed Like a Snail Shell Under a Stiletto and is Begrudgingly Divested of Its Own Smugness” and Carolyn Kizer’s poem “Heart’s Limbo.”
2025-03-1836 min
The GlimpseThe Glimpse Season Two TrailerOur second season of The Glimpse is here, featuring lively conversations between poets about their work and about poems that inspire them.Our host for this season, Seán Hewitt, interviews poets connected to Ireland, including Irish, Northern Irish, and diasporic poets. Guest poets for Season 2 include Victoria Kennefick, Mícheál McCann, Nithy Kasa, Kit Fryatt, Martina Evans, Stephen Sexton, Gustav Parker Hibbett, and Jane Clarke. As in our first season, each guest chooses two poems to read and discuss: one they’ve written, and one by another poet.The Glimpse is produced by the A...
2025-03-1101 min
Books for Breakfast71: Keith Payne builds a boat and translates Luisa Castro; 2024 highlightsSend us a textOn today’s show, the last of 2024, we talk to Keith Payne about his recent boat building and poem writing project. Currachs and naomhógs are among the only sea craft built upside down, and the expertise dates back generations. Keith learned all of this and a. lot more when he found himself working on a Dunfanaghy currach over 16 weeks. He was Cork City Library eco-poet in residence from 2022 to 2023 when he was drawn to the work of Meitheal Mara. He learned about carpenters' marks and pigtails and how to row with Naomhóga Ch...
2024-12-311h 06
Point Of ViewPoint of View with poet Victoria KennefickVictoria Kennefick grew up in Cork and lives in Kerry. Her debut collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, and the Butler Literary Prize. She was the UCD/Arts Council of Ireland Writer-in-Residence 2023 and Poet-in-Residence at the Yeats Society Sligo 2022-2024. Victoria reads from her work and reads my favourite Paris Syndrome, a recreation of a lover's wekend in Paris wit...
2024-11-2644 min
The Irish Itinerary Podcast53. Victoria Kennefick in conversation with Lucy Collins (17 October 2024)In her conversation with Lucy Collins, Victoria Kennefick discusses her most recent poetry collection Egg/Shell (2024). She talks about the changes in her creative practice occasioned by events in her life and how these have produced a collection that defies containment; how writing poetry has helped her to capture the immediacy of these difficult experiences and to process them over time. She discusses the continuing importance of representing the female body in diverse ways, the importance of creative freedom - the capacity to 'let yourself go' - and the usefulness of poetry. www.efacis.eu
2024-10-1744 min
The Oscar Project Podcast2.40 Filmmaker Interview with Luke MorganSend us a textIn today's episode, I interview Luke Morgan, the director of the short film "The Boat." The film is based on a heartbreaking true story of a father who must make a difficult choice when his daughter begins exhibiting troubling medical symptoms and is it qualified for the 97th Academy Awards.Listen to hear about the work that Luke and his brother were doing that led them to the story, why they decided to make a film that highlighted the disease of leprosy, and the realities of quicksand as a danger in...
2024-10-1120 min
You're BookedIrenosen Okojie - You're BookedOur series of legends continues with the novelist, short story writer, playwright and podcaster Irenosen Okojie MBE! Irenosen's debut, Butterfly Fish, won the Betty Trask Award and her short story collection, Speak Gigantular was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her collection Nudibranch was selected as one of the best books of the year in the Guardian. She was a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2023 and in 2021 she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature. Her latest work is the highly anticipated novel Cura...
2024-07-0154 min
Planet PoetryBold Lines | Black Pages - with Seni SeneviratneSend us a textSilent faces and displaced lives. Seni Seneviratne gives voice to overshadowed Black children, exotic pages and servants in the portraits of nobility and the mercantile class in 18th Century paintings. Other of her poised and beautiful poems, from The Go-Away Bird from Peepal Tree Press, are infused with bird imagery, and the migrations of travellers going deeper into themselves. Meanwhile Robin jumps into the world of online poetry magazines, looking at the long-running Ink Sweat & Tears, and one of the newer mags Propel Magazine. And Peter is intrigued by Victoria Kennefick's l...
2024-05-2348 min
Books for Breakfast59: Victoria Kennefick on Egg/ShellSend us a textOn this mornings's show we talk to Victoria Kennefrick about her new collection Egg/Shell, just published by Carcanet, a double album, as she describes it, which explores early motherhood and miscarriage, and the impact of a spouse's gender transition and the dissolution of a marriage. The book is a follow-up to her widely acclaimed first collection Eat or We Both Starve. Hers had been described as one of the boldest poetic voices to emerge in recent years and Egg/Shell is The Poetry Book Society S...
2024-03-1435 min
Arji's Poetry Pickle JarArji's Poetry Pickle Jar X Poetry Book Society - A conversation with Victoria KennefickHey everyone. I'm working on a new series so please subscribe and support by sharing.
Happy to be back here to present another special speaking with the wonderful Victoria Kennefick
Victoria grew up in Cork and lives in Kerry. Her debut collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry,
...
2024-02-2220 min
The VerbThe Physical VerbThis edition of the verb is a celebration of the physical - everything from mountain climbing, human desire, a mother's touch or the act of writing. The poet Helen Mort writes in her head, while running, climbing and she even wrote one whilst in labour. She tells Ian about her new collection The Illustrated Woman - inspired by what she calls a "pain epiphany" while being tattooed - and how her poems "spookily" prefigure her life. The Norfolk born writer Jon Ransom wrote The Whale Tattoo, which won the Polari first book award, on his phone on...
2024-02-0944 min
A Pair of BookendsSeptember Book Club: The Wren, The Wren with Anne EnrightWE'RE BACK BOOKENDS! For the first episode in our new season, we were joined by none other than Anne Enright, a Booker Prize-winning author, no less! Aswell as deep diving into her latest novel, we chat about sibling dynamics, mothers and daughters, social media and so much more, it was an absolute JOY to chat to the Irish powerhouse herself and we hope you love this conversation as much as we did. If you enjoyed this episode, please do rate, review & subscribe as it helps us to reach more of you!To buy The Wren, The...
2023-09-1555 min
Georgia's Poetry WorkshopSkin and BonesI discuss the Gurlesque and poems about the body. Plus embarrassing times I have hurt my back.References: "Tiger D" by Chelsea Minnis and "2 Sections from "Imitating"" by Catherine Wagner - from Gurlesque ed. by Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg / "a test - things our bodies have been" - from bones by yrsa daley-ward / "Hunger Strikes of Angela of Foligno (1248-1309)" - from Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-03-2318 min
Open Book UnboundOctober 2022: Carnival NightWe feature Victoria Kennefick's poem 'A Young Girl Discovers Her Reflection' and the short story 'Carnival Night' by Rebecca Savage.
2022-10-0331 min
Southword 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
Poetry in AldeburghA Dream of Myself – Four Irish Poets FinaleA Dream of Myself – Four Irish Poets Finale (E16), Play (3), Sunday 7th November 2021, 7-8 pm
With poets Seán Hewitt, Róisín Kelly, Aoife Lyall and Victoria Kennefick. Hosted by Ramona Herdman
Can we live with the past, yet not be consumed by it? This event shows how themes of the sacred and the profane materialise in contemporary Irish poetry. With lyrics on sex, grief, loss, as well as hope and new life, Seán Hewitt will read from his book Tongues of Fire Cape 2020). Róisín Kelly’s Mercy (Bloodaxe 2020), attempts to reconcile he...
2022-02-121h 25
BacklistedFinishing the Hat and Look, I Made a Hat by Stephen SondheimStephen Sondheim's biographer David Benedict and writer and musician Jason Hazeley join us for a special episode devoted to Finishing the Hat and Look, I Made a Hat, the late and very great songwriter's two volumes of lyrics, memoir, criticism and much more, first published in 2010 and 2011 respectively; Sondheim's work defies easy categorisation and these glorious books are no exception. NB. This show contains expert recommendations for further listening and, as you'll hear, putting it together was a real thrill. Somehow we also find time to discuss the novel O Caledonia, a modern classic of Scottish fiction by Elspeth Barker...
2022-01-241h 21The VerbTS Eliot Prize VerbIan McMillan presents poets reading from all the collections shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, awarded by the T.S. Eliot Foundation for the best collection of the past year, and gives his take on the year in poetry.This is a special edition of the show recorded at the annual prize reading at the Royal Festival Hall in London (hosted by Ian) a day before the announcement of the winner - Joelle Taylor. Ian celebrates the impact and achievement of Joelle's collection 'C+nto' and of the other shortlisted collections.Poets featured:
...
2022-01-1444 min
BacklistedWinter Reading 2022Happy New Year! We begin 2022 with a stack of books to see us through the winter: poetry, history, fiction and science. Andy, John and Nicky discuss and read from The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Bloodaxe); The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow (FSG/Allen Lane); Love in Five Acts by Daniela Krien (MacLehose Press); Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe); The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (Fitzcarraldo Editions); The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen (Profile Books); Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick (Carcanet). Plus there's a special quiz...
2022-01-101h 03
Books for Breakfast32: Sinéad O'Connor's Rememberings, Victoria Kennefick, Sharon OldsSend us a textToday former RTE producer and writer Julian Vignoles, know for his biographies of Rory Gallagher and David Thomson of Woodbrook fame, reviews Sinéad O'Connor's memoir Rememberings, described as 'inspiring, liberating, hilarious and fascinating' by theIrish Times and 'beautifully observed ... lyrical, funny and anguished' by the Guardian.Our Toaster Challenge guest is Victoria Kennefick whose debut collection Eat Or We Both Starve, was published recently by Carcanet. Her collection draws readers into seemingly recognisable set-pieces - the family home, the...
2021-06-2447 min
Words Lightly SpokenWLS 123 Victoria Kennefick reads Hunger Strikes Victoria KennefickVictoria Kennefick reads her poem Hunger Strikes Victoria Kennefick in this episode of Words Lightly Spoken, a podcast of poetry from Ireland. The poem is from her collection Eat Or We Both Starve, published by Carcanet Press. The Words Lightly Spoken podcast is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and is a Rockfinch production.
2021-05-0702 min
Eat The StormsEat the Storms Episode 10 Season 2This week on the poetry podcast Eat the Storms Victoria Kennefick reads from her new collection Eat it We Both Starve, Keira J Delerue joins us from her caravan in Cornwall, Raine Geoghegan tells us about her gypsy roots and David Russell Mosley shares poems from his upcoming collection The Green Man. Hosted and Produced by poet Damien B Donnelly
2021-04-0346 min
Books for Breakfast22: New and recent poetry; Michael O'Loughlin's Liberty Hall; in search of lost godsSend us a textIn this episode we look at new and recent poetry collections, which we list below. And our Toaster Challenge guest is Michael O’Loughlin whose new book of poetry and prose, Liberty Hall, will be published by New Island in April. Michael goes in search of lost gods with his Toaster Challenge choice, Roberto Calasso's Literature and the Gods. Here's a list of poetry books mentioned in the episode. Maurice Scully, Play BookJustin Quinn, Shal...
2021-02-0444 min
Arty Farty with Vincent11: The Preacher's Daughter by Victoria KennefickThis week's episode looks at a poem that takes imagery and twists it so that everything is shifting and the reality we are confronted with is completely at odds at what we thought it was going to be. Drawing on the imagery of Alice in Wonderland and that of a young woman selling access to video imagery of herself to others, this poem shows us how reality is being altered through the stories we tell others and ourselves of the people around us.
To read the poem click right HERE!
To read more about Victoria K...
2020-10-0220 min
Keywords05. Common GroundThis week Zoe Comyns is guided by the keyword: Common Ground.
We’re maybe more conscious now of the spaces we’re sharing with others. We’re told to stand 2 metres apart, we’re stepping off the pavement to let people by or we’re concerned if we feel that someone hasn’t given us enough distance. We’re also dwelling in the virtual world of cyberspace and sharing many experiences online that we never imagined doing only a few months ago.
Writer and broadcaster Fionn Davenport is based in Manchester and he brings his bike - and us - on his daily e...
2020-05-2427 min