Pádraig Ó Tuama

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920 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4 Sep

Pádraig Ó Tuama’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Poetry Unbound · Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Haleh Liza Gafori · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

Is that his full name?

What you know, what's his what is his full name or is he known by other things too?

Okay.

And um you have all you mentioned that your parents also have a reverence for him.

Uh y tell us a little bit about how it is that you came to be in such uh kind of a deep relationship with Rumi, 'cause it's a very interesting story.

And this was in New York City?

And both your parents came from Iran to the United States, just was it shortly before you were born or or?

We're gonna have lots of opportunities to hear you recite various things in response to different parts.

But I'd be curious to hear from the first.

A are there any parts that you can recite that are in the original that are untranslated?

So we can get a feel for the contours of the sound of Rumi um as he wrote um himself?

yum.

I can hear those as the battle

Um uh with the gazal the i it's it's in couplets and the the last word of every couplet is the same i in in a repeated form.

A rhyme.

And w for that, what is he talking about?

And how do you render um what it is you just translated for us?

Beautiful.

There there's an absolute ecstasy every time I hear um him, every time I hear him through you.

Do you feel the same e after so much scholarship and translation of him? 'Cause he's he's a he's alive with being alive, it seems.

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