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

I want to continue that on with another way within which you both engage with time, which is elegy.

Rachel, you have a moving poem in your collection about your father, and Yomi, you have an extended sequence about your great aunt.

And then Rachel, with some of the poems you read, you sketch the murder of trans people, and Yomi, your work highlights the murder of black people by state violence.

And so in terms of personal griefs with people who have come to the end of a life, a long life, as well as then griefs of absolute violation where people are murdered in the middle, at the prime of their life.

And both of you are dealing with death and what that says to us about time and how it is that poetic form can engage with that.

I wonder if we could both comment on the role of elegy, both in private and public, in your work.

And then grief as a result of violence?

And the analogy and conversation with that?

How about you, Rachel, in terms of elegy regarding familial grief, as well as then elegy regarding grief as a result of violence?

Yeah, I can.

I want to finish by asking a huge question and asking that each of you could respond to it in somewhat of a short paragraph.

And I think it continues on.

One of the things that each of you have involved with is presence in the world.

Yomi as a youth worker and Rachel as parish priest.

And I wonder how it is that this public attention to work other than poetry feeds into your poetry.

I've heard both of you circle around that in your poetry and in your conversation already today.

So I don't think it's a new topic, but it's kind of finishing off with that.

Yomi, I wonder if you'd like to respond to that.

So how does it feed outside of, or does it?

Yeah, how does your work, the work that you've done in community work and youth work, feed into your work in poetry?

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