Kate Evans
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26,301 appearances
191 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 3d ago
Kate Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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An Irish poet.
I have not read A Ghost in the Throat, even though so many people have talked to me about it, but you have, BJ Silcox.
Well, brace yourself, BJ, because... This is the next book.
Look, I have to say her new book, it's called Said the Dead, and it's the best thing I've read in a very long time.
But I just realised, Bernadette, something quite important that I didn't tell people listening here to the bookshelf, which is how to spell Dira Nigrifa, because it is an Irish name.
Dirin is spelt D-O-I-R-E-A-N-N.
And Nigrifa is sort of two words, N-I with an acute, although it's not called an acute in Irish.
And Grifa is G-H-R-I-O-F-A.
And so that's Dirin Nigrifa.
This new book, it's called Said the Dead.
Bernadette, how do we enter this world, this story?
And I really want us to sink into that archival research.
But even before we get there, I just want to pause on the way that we enter this book to sort of sink into the story.
So just to make it really clear for the listeners, this is a book that happens on a number of different levels because you have this woman in the present, in Cork, breaking in, as you say, to this abandoned mental asylum, which is an asylum with a very long history.
But the voice of that narrator is really quite curious because it's both terribly intimate and beautiful.
I mean, from the very first page, even as this woman is talking about her male being redirected, the writing is astonishing.
It is so beautiful.
And you just want to stop and quote every second line in this book.
You do.
at the sentences or the paragraphs in this book.
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