Pádraig Ó Tuama
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1,142 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
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Later on in number eight in that sequence he says, Um, how long ago was that?
Don't ask me, I can't say.
The only word I know for gone forever is today.
You say that, I suppose, through the conversation of of with uh and translation with his work.
Um, what is the function of memory in poetry as you see it?
Yes, he said, with his acceptance remarks last night.
In that particular book that you translated, um porcelain um poems on the destruction of my city, poems on the downfall of my city, um, it seemed to me, looking through all the ones that you translated, that they were all ten line poems, decimus and and rhyming as well.
Like in the one that you read out, make, take, folk, fags, tar, handlebars, alarm, warm.
How do you work with particular form in the original language and then working with form in terms of line length or line count or or syllabic beat or rhyme when you're going into English?
Um, Dorst Grumbine's poetry is noted by many, and he's translated and commented upon widely.
He is a world poet, you know, and his ideas of philosophy and antiquity are present in so many of his works.
Um, but so also, and you highlight this in your introduction, are things, the thingness of things.
And I wasn't expecting to burst out laughing when I read this translation of yours, but a fantasy on public lavatory.
on page twelve had me guffawing and well I very kind of pleasantly in in a bawdy way.
I wonder if you could read it, 'cause I'm curious if you can read it with a straight face, and then also to talk about the presence and what he does with things and I suppose the human experience of things in this brilliant poem.
Because there's a seriousness to the ways of which he treats um thing, you know, uh a a lavatory, uh, and to to speaking about a public lavatory.
Uh, but then he talks about the human experience of it, you know, of people near each other, hearing the intimacies of each other's bodies, hearing the ways within which a person's body, the thing of their body, is also a conversation with themself and with time and history.
That's it's such a it's such a definite.
often he does.
What what was it that was in your mind in terms of bringing this to translation and uh and also what is it that you want to say about it that is more serious than it seems?
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