Pádraig Ó Tuama
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1,142 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Sep
Pádraig Ó Tuama’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What beautiful language words to put together in some kind of lament, something that's past as well.
How long do you spend looking for these words?
Do they kind of trip out of you before morning coffee, or do you labor over them for a long time?
It's my delight now to introduce on the stage here with me Yomi Shode.
Yomi is a Nigerian British poet and playwright and facilitator.
His one-man show, Coat, toured nationally to sold-out audiences.
He's an essayist and librettist, and his essay, The F Word, was featured in Safe, 20 Ways to Be a Black Man in Britain.
Penguin UK published his poetry collection, Mannerism, in 2022, a book that charts the vulnerabilities and rich nuances of black masculinity in Britain.
And it was described by Jackie Kay as thrilling once in a generation.
So please welcome Jörm Ísardé.
The word grace occurs both in your poetry as well as in your commentary on the poetry.
You know, grace as forgiveness, grace as pardon from the Pope, then the line, where was the pardon for them?
Grace, period.
I wonder if you could talk to us about the insistence that you have of troubling a word that's often just used in a very benevolent way and an easy way.
You bring deep layers of trouble to this word grace.
Could you talk a bit about ekphrasis and your interest in it?
Did you come to ekphrasis through general interests, or was it particularly through Caravaggio that you began to pay such attention to works of art?
going to bring rachel back in um for a conversation which which picks right back up on this um which is that both of you have a long-standing um engagements through your recent works with characters from history caravaggio as you've just been talking about only as one you've obviously been looking at many other characters as well and then rachel you um with eleanor reichner i wonder if both you could talk about the the role of research historical research in the context of your poetry
We'll start with you, Rachel.
Both of you are disrupting a time continuum when it comes to the question as to who is able to speak to what particular era, bringing people from the past in enlightening and troubling ways into the present.
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