Paddy Bushe: Peripheral Vision

(0:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter Discussion(7:34) - Paddy Bushe interview(51:48) - Southword poem, Perault's Wolf by Tracy GaughanPaddy Bushe was born in Dublin in 1948 and now lives in Waterville, Co. Kerry. He writes in Irish and in English and he is a member of Aosdána. He received the 2006 Oireachtas prize for poetry, the 2006 Michael Hartnett Poetry Award and the 2017 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. In 2020, Dedalus Press published Double Vision, a two-volume publication comprising Second Sight, the author's own selection of his Irish language poems, accompanied by the author's own translations, as well as Peripheral Vision, his latest collection in English.This week's Southword poem is ‘Perault's Wolf’ by Tracy Gaughan, which appears in issue 43. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find out how to submit to Southword here.