Pádraig Ó Tuama
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1,142 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
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I wonder if you could talk about um musical as a way of being in the world, not just as a pastime or entertainment.
Somebody else sold the world is a is an engagement with David Bowie and many other musicians as well.
Future, Miles Davis, lots of others.
Um I wonder if you could uh say a bit about the David Bowie reference in terms of the title.
Oh
Um, lots of the themes about what you just spoke about are picked up in one of the poems, which is called the same as the book Somebody Else Sold the World, uh on page thirty seven, if you'd read it for us.
Mm-hmm.
Um your book is arranged in this particular book is arranged in different sections, one of which is called Different Violences.
And um there is a uh a kind of a a scientific level detailed study about the parts of a bullet in it.
And I'm gonna get you to read a few of them, but um one of the things I noticed um uh when doing some research about you is that when you have written about historical characters
You n you want any piece of information you put into it to be factual and you hold yourself to that kind of constrained form within that you don't want to just be um
Mm-hmm.
amusing or i introducing things that aren't factual into into characters that you write about.
And I wondered if that influenced the way you wrote about a bullet as well in terms of
Yeah.
Wonder if you could read a few of those.
um poems from that sequence.
Um I was thinking of the ones on page twenty three, twenty five and twenty seven, but uh you can read whichever ones you wish.
Thank you.
Okay.
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