Pádraig Ó Tuama
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1,142 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Sep
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Daljeet Negra, Emily Berry, the poems, the references at the back are filled with gratitude towards other people.
And I felt like it was a populated book that somehow I was, in encountering it, I was getting a sense of
the importance of friendship throughout it.
And while that isn't technically part of the work of art, it's also absolutely at the heart of the work of art.
And I felt like you are a person who loves and is loved through reading this.
I wonder if you could talk about the necessity of those tiny little marginalia of references to the people who are important in your life throughout it.
grateful in a while i'm going to bring us to a finish and ask you maybe to read still life with plums but i wonder is there anything that surprised you about this book since it's come out um maybe something that's in it or some of the places that it's gone i mean i i'm just so i'm so grateful to be able to read from it and to be able to have conversations about the book and
Well, Richard Scott, I'm so grateful for your time, for the intense labour of this work and the music that comes through.
These are poems that invite, you know, whenever I read them, I find myself mouthing them because they are delicious demand on the tongue.
It's a music of recitation that's present in them.
Thank you so much for your generosity in writing and giving time today.
I wonder if you'd finish with reading Still Life with Plums.
Richard Scott, thank you very much.
Richard Scott grew up in London.
Before turning to poetry, he studied to be an opera singer.
He has won many prizes and his most recent collection is That Broke Into Shining Crystals, published by Faber.
Deepest thanks to Thomas Hubel, Cassie Johnson and the rest of the team behind the Collective Trauma Summit for hosting and organising this conversation.
Poetry Unbound is Andrea Prevost, Carla Zanoni, Daryl Chen, Sparrow Murray, Chris Heagle, Bill Siegmund, and me, Padraig O'Toole.
Our music is composed and provided by Gautam Srikishan and Blue Doll Sessions.
These episodes were made in New York City on unceded Lenape land.
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