Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Poetry Unbound · Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Rachel Mann and Yomi Ṣode · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

Let me introduce her.

She is a priest and a writer and a broadcaster, the author of 13 books.

And those books span fiction and literary criticism and theology and commentary and poetry.

She's a visiting teaching fellow at the Manchester Writing School.

And her most recent collection of poetry, titled Eleanor Among the Saints, was published by Carconet in January 2024.

Andrew Macmillan wrote this about the book.

Nobody else could have written this.

Poems formed in the space where divinity, the body, trans identity and history fold together.

So please give Rachel Mann a very warm stanza welcome and we'll hear some poems and then have a conversation with her.

Rachel, it's great to see you.

Rachel, it's powerful to have you reading this selection of poems from Eleanor Among the Saints.

I'm struck by, throughout all of your work, there can often be a desire to give names, and some of that is theological, some of that is playful, some of that is about violence, some of that is about self-declaration.

I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the power of naming across your work.

I wrote down as you were reading just that conjugated verb, I am, I am, I am, and then not code for another's sins.

And then I think there is also the way of speaking about oneself as the I and having the opportunity to speak for oneself in conjugating a verb and letting your own language be present in art on the page.

What is it that drives you to poetry, to speak in the I, even as you adopt other personas through Eleanor and others?

We're going to have a conversation, the three of us, in a while after we hear Yomi read.

But I just wanted to highlight your attention to syntax, your really careful attention.

Just as an example, I wrote down Festival of Oxygen and Iron.

How delicious.

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