Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Poetry Unbound · Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 1 of 2 · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

This is going to happen.

To find a way in your language to step away, kind of narrative approaches to conflict mediation.

You're doing the same thing with creating this character, the poet Kay, who was both you but not you.

And that's an act of hospitality, I think, to your readers as well, that we can see that you're able to play with yourself despite talking about extraordinary levels of pain.

Yeah, to see the basics.

And also to create a distance between yourself and yourself.

Often, you know, fragmentary states of being are spoken of perhaps in a negative way, but it is a way within which we narrate stories of our lives and can create a separation from the who I am and what has happened to me.

And I think to introduce some kind of ways within which you can narrate yourself can create a poem in yourself.

You mentioned earlier on that when people are hearing about your diagnosis, that ultimately there's questions about where it is in your life they think you're at and what it is, therefore, that they assume you should or shouldn't be living with.

And in many ways, those conversations and questions about stages of life are also questions about the experiences of death.

What has thinking through Dante and, you know, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, what has that led to you in terms of thinking about death?

Which is an occupation of the living, isn't it?

The living are the ones that think about death.

I don't know if the dead do.

Well, I suppose that makes sense.

You want a number of coping mechanisms.

Do you find yourself looking back at anything you wrote previously and thinking that with what you're living with now, that you have different thoughts about the way that you employed death as a poetic metaphor previously?

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.

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