Kevin Young
speaker
1,056 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Aug
Kevin Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, I hope they do take away hope from the collection in a way.
I think that whether it's that mailbox or the image of my son climbing a tree, these small moments, I think, are what The Extraordinary is made of.
And I think that
kind of idea of the miraculousness of the everyday was so important to me.
And to me, that's where paradise lies.
It doesn't lie in some external thing or doesn't lie in some notion that's far from earth only.
It also can lie here and within us.
And, you know, I make it sound like it's a book of, of
preachiness, but it isn't.
It's really, I hope, a book of, as it ends with, a kind of rapture.
And that rapturousness sometimes ends up being quite hard.
It's hard to move about, and especially now when things can seem kind of despondent or divided or strange, I love that we still have language to try to help us understand that.
And for me, that's what poems do.
That's what
Nature does.
There's a lot of nature in the book.
But also this idea of the night watch, of keeping vigil, is important.
And if there's something about that, about being vigilant, but not just against things, but toward what's possible and beauty, then I'd be happy.
Yeah, he's got to keep working.
That ball straight at him, came in, got a bad read.
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