EPISODE · Nov 10, 2022 · 42 MIN
52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond Stillness
from Books for Breakfast (Ireland) · host Peter Sirr
Send us Fan MailToday 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 harefrom the road, a crack of bone.Those marvellous feet, mishandled.Its shadow waits on the moonbut 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. Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.Artwork by Freya SirrTo subscribe to Books for Breakfast go to your podcast provider of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google etc) and search for the podcast then hit subscribe or follow, or simply click the appropriate button above. Support the show
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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...
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