Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Poetry Unbound · Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 2 of 2 · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think good theology is doing the same thing.

And it sounds to me like you're doing the same thing with what you're urging people to listen to within your versioning of Dante's Commedia.

it's that big thing again I don't know, it's the big project that hopefully if I come back when I've finished it it would be fun to see how long it takes me if I'm still standing You're publishing it in real time the piece from Canto 1 that you read is coming out in Poetry Ireland Review but it's not like the whole thing's done and so you're allowing the sharing of it in public and the discussing of it in public to be part of the process

Yeah, yeah.

And it also corresponds with the kind of circular nature of his and what an important number, the number three is for him.

Yeah.

We started where I was asking you a little bit about Elkhart, Indiana.

I wonder if you could tell us a little bit about York and also Italy and just as we finish to talk a little bit about the places that you inhabit now.

You're not reaching far and wide for all of these references.

You're reaching deep.

And they're all linked to each other through atrocious histories as well as deep histories.

What is a village?

That almost feels like, as we finish, that it is, you're beginning another poem with that title.

Kimberly Campanello, thank you so much for your time.

Kimberly Campanello's recent projects are the poetry collection An Interesting Detail, the novel Use the Words You Have, and Mother Baby Home.

She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.

Thanks again to Kimberly Campanello, Chris Heagle, Tiffany Champion, and Gautam Shrikashen for making this conversation possible.

Poetry Unbound is Andrea Prevost, Carla Zanoni, Daryl Chen, Sparrow Murray, Chris Heagle, Bill Siegmund, and me, Padraig O'Tooma.

Our music is composed and provided by Gautam Shrikishan and Blue Dot Sessions.

These episodes were made in New York City on unceded Lenape land.

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