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Poetry Unbound
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| Date | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 1 | #60 |
About the show
Short and unhurried, Poetry Unbound is an immersive exploration of a single poem, hosted by Pádraig Ó Tuama.
Pádraig Ó Tuama greets you at the doorways of brilliant poems and walks you through — each one has wisdom to offer and questions to ask you.
Already a listener? There’s also a book (Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World), a Substack newsletter with a vibrant conversation in the comments, and occasional gatherings.
Latest episodes
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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Amanda Quaid
September 18, 2026 · 52 minAfter actor, dialect coach, and teacher Amanda Quaid was diagnosed with a serious illness in 2021, she responded by trying something new — she wrote poetry. She says, “I was looking for an art form that allowed me to be with uncertainty in…
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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Haleh Liza Gafori
September 4, 2026 · 58 minPoet, translator, and musician Haleh Liza Gafori describes the revered 13th-century Persian poet Rumi as “a good pal to humanity”. As she puts it, “He's rooting for our liberation.” In this exuberant conversation recorded for the 2025…
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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Adrian Matejka
August 21, 2026 · 47 min“For me, if a poem doesn't swing, it's really not much of a poem,” says Adrian Matejka, author of the collection Be Easy: New and Selected Poems. His work hums with music, from its references to David Bowie, Miles Davis, and others to its…
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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Karen Leeder
August 7, 2026 · 41 minAfter listening to this exuberant interview, you’ll retire the phrase “lost in translation” from your vocabulary. Instead, writer and scholar Karen Leeder believes poetry can expand when translated, reaching new audiences and gaining new…
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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Richard Scott
July 24, 2026 · 52 min“Poetry means paying attention in a different way to the world and seeing what wisdom you're given back in return for that attention,” says Richard Scott in this conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama, recorded during the 2025 Collective Trauma…
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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 2 of 2
July 10, 2026 · 38 min“It had to involve more than just a slim volume of verse,” says Kimberly Campanello about MOTHERBABYHOME, her ongoing visual poetry project which centers the 796 infants and children who died at the St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home in Tuam…
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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 1 of 2
June 26, 2026 · 50 min“It's about seeing, through reading, whether where you are going has been or is now or will be written, or not.” This deliciously twisty line is from Kimberly Campanello’s ongoing versioning of Dante’s Inferno, and as in that sentence, she…
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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Rachel Mann and Yomi Ṣode
June 12, 2026 · 56 min“Poetry should be horrifying,” says Rachel Mann. “It should be … on the edge of the edge of what could be said.” We are delighted to bring you this vibrant conversation featuring Rachel and Yomi Ṣode speaking with Pádraig Ó Tuama at the…