52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond Stillness
An episode of the Books for Breakfast (Ireland) podcast, hosted by Peter Sirr, titled "52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond Stillness" was published on November 10, 2022 and runs 42 minutes.
November 10, 2022 ·42m · Books for Breakfast (Ireland)
Summary
Send us Fan Mail Today we talk to Liam Carson, Director of annual Irish language festival Imram, about this year's programme. And we interview Mark Roper about his latest collection of poems, Beyond Stillness, of which Martina Evans wrote in the Irish Times: Roper has an unerring sense of the gulfs between the miracle and damnation, life’s beginning and its end: As I dragged the dead hare from the road, a crack of bone. Those marvellous feet, mishandled. Its shadow waits on the moon but the...
Episode Description
Today we talk to Liam Carson, Director of annual Irish language festival Imram, about this year's programme. And we interview Mark Roper about his latest collection of poems, Beyond Stillness, of which Martina Evans wrote in the Irish Times:
Roper has an unerring sense of the gulfs between the miracle and damnation, life’s beginning and its end:
As I dragged the dead hare
from the road, a crack of bone.
Those marvellous feet, mishandled.
Its shadow waits on the moon
but the hare is nailed to earth.
(The Hare)
Mark will be reading from Beyond Stillness at 3.00 pm on Sunday 27 November in Books Upstairs, D’Olier Street, Dublin, and in The Molly Keane House, Dysert, Ardmore on Thursday 8 December, time to be confirmed.
Artwork by Freya Sirr
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