Southword Poetry Podcast

About Southword Poetry Podcast

The Southword Poetry Podcast is produced by the Munster Literature Centre. Each episode, a guest poet talks in depth about their latest work and shares a few of their poems. We also hear a poem from a recent issue of the literary journal Southword (https://munsterlit.ie/southword/). Sarah Byrne hosted the 2022 season. Clíona Ní Ríordáin hosted the 2024 and 2025 seasons. Poets were selected by the hosts, Patrick Cotter and James O’Leary. The Munster Literature Centre is a grateful recipient of funding from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Office of Cork City Council.

Publisher

Munster Literature Centre

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Jul 2022

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Stephen Sexton: Cheryl's Destinies

   (00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter discussion (04:44) – Stephen Sexton interview (01:01:07) – Southword poem, Biophoton by Andrew Gebhardt Stephen Sexton’s first book, If All the World and Love Were Young was the winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2019 and the Shine / Strong Award for Best First Collection. He was awarded the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2020. He was the w...

2. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Máighréad Medbh: Dwelling

   (00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter discussion (07:05) – Máighréad Medbh interview (01:04:52) – Southword poem, Incantations of Loss by Lani O’Hanlon Máighréad Medbh is a poet and prose writer with nine published books. Most of her poetry books are long-form sequences or narratives, and her ecological verse novel, Parvit of Agelast (Arlen House), was shortlisted for the 2017 Pigott Prize. After her first book from Blackstaff Press in 1990, she earned a reputation for dramati...

3. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Jericho Brown: The Tradition

   (00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter discussion (02:17) – Jericho Brown interview (57:00) – Southword poem, The Last Ice Pop by Patrick Wright Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The Ne...

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