The Deep Heart’s Core
In our new anthology, The Deep Heart’s Core: Irish Poets Revisit a Touchstone Poem, some 100 poets accept the invitation to revisit a favourite, key or touchstone poem of their own, and offer a short commentary on same — as
Incorrigibly Spain
Keith Payne’s letter from Galicia, first published in The Level Crossing, introduces two of the new wave of Galician poets. World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural … IT WAS AS IF MacNeice had predicted
Paula Meehan, reading and in conversation
To coincide with the launch of her new collection of poems, Geomantic, we link here to a recording of a wide-ranging conversation between the poet and UCD Adjunct Professor Jody Allen Randolph, in an event that took place at The
Obituary for Leland Bardwell
Leland Bardwell (1922 – 2016) “For such a big personality, her carbon footprint was small. Her radio played Lyric FM, quietly. And for years and years she drove an ancient Triumph Herald, the back seat of which was composed almost
Waveforms: essay and sample haiku by Pat Boran
In the Afterword to Waveforms, his recent collection of haiku and photographs, Pat Boran considers the attractions of keeping it small. Low-res PDF of essay and sample poems from the book, as featured in issue 1 of The Level Crossing.
AudioRoom: Jessica Trayor reads ‘Liffey Swim’
Jessica Traynor reads the title poem from her 2014 Dedalus Press debut collection, Liffey Swim, in the UCD Library Special Collections Reading Room. The poem also features in the 2014 Dedalus anthology, If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in
AudioRoom: Thomas Kinsella on ‘Marcus Aurelius’
Thomas Kinsella reads and introduces the poem ‘Marcus Aurelius’ from Marginal Economy (Peppercanister No. 24) recorded in Belmullet, Co. Mayo, June 2006, following the presentation to him of the Ted McNulty Award (from the Dedalus Press archive)
AudioRoom: Francis Harvey ABC Radio Documentary
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 03 Feb 2016 broadcast an edited version of Eamon Little’s very fine documentary on the life and work of the late Francis Harvey, featuring powerful readings by Frank (as he was generally known), dating from
AudioRoom: Doireann Ní Ghríofa reads ‘Frozen Food’
Doireann Ní Ghríofa reads ‘Frozen Food’ from Clasp, her debut English language collection of poems, published by Dedalus Press in 2015, in which the poet has “signalled that she is a poetic force to be reckoned with in the future”
AudioRoom: Macdara Woods reads 3 poems from Collected Poems
Macdara Woods reads three poems from his 2012 Collected Poems.
Groundswell: An Interview with Patrick Deeley
Patrick Deeley shares his thoughts on poetry with Aoife Byrne, following the publication of Groundswell, his New and Selected Poems (Interview first published in July 2013) Do you have a particular method of writing? Each collection seems to tie in
Piano: 3 Poems by Eva Bourke
The following three poems are taken from piano, Eva Bourke’s 2011 collection of poems. “In these new poems Eva Bourke leans into what she calls the “heart of things,” discovering for herself, and us, time and again that there truly
AudioRoom: Francis Harvey reads ‘Elegy for the Islanders’
The late Francis Harvey reads one of his best known poems, ‘Elegy for the Islanders’, recorded at the launch of Collected Poems in Dublin’s Damer hall in 2007.
AudioRoom: Leland Bardwell reads ‘Them’s Your Mammy’s Pills’
Leland Bardwell is “a poet who has felt the shocks of our time, the private impacts and the historic changes” wrote Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Here is Leland reading the title poem of her 2015 selected, Them’s Your Mammy’s Pills.
