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Seán Hewitt: Seán, Welcome to the
second season of The Glimpse. It's

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a place for poets, poems and you.

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Victoria Kennefick: And so when I
read this poem, I cried, I laughed

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and I gasped.

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Seán Hewitt: I'm your host. Seán
Hewitt, poet and writer, and most

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recently, the author of the novel
Open Heaven. This season, we focus

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on Irish poets and poetry,

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Kit Fryatt: I talk to people who do
have a real fluency in Irish, and

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then I ignore them.

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Seán Hewitt: Each episode, I'll
speak with one poet about two

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poems, one of their own, and
another that has inspired their

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work.

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Parker Hibbett: I have like
exclamation points written in the

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book.

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Jane Clarke: How do you stay really
close to emotion and distance from

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it? I think we need to do that as
poets.

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Stephen Sexton: I don't really know
what's happening in this poem that

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has not in any way diminished how
much I love it

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Seán Hewitt: From page to podcast,
The Glimpse offers a peek behind

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the process of poets and their
poetry.

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Nithy Kasa: The process is harder
when you're being commissioned, but

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the journey, especially when you
get it right at the end, it's it's

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always pride,

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Míchéal McCann: I think, like all
good poems, if you're thinking

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about reception or historicity or
whatever, it's gonna not be worth

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toilet paper.

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Seán Hewitt: Our guests this season
include Míchéal McCann, Martina

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Evans, Parker Hibbert, Nithy Kasa,
Kit Fryatt, Victoria Kennefick,

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Stephen Sexton and Jane Clarke.

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Martina Evans: It's a joy to be
hidden, but a disaster not to be

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found.

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Seán Hewitt: You can find Season
Two of The Glimpse, starting March

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18th. Wherever you get your
podcasts. The Glimpse is an audio

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production of the Adrian
Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.

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you.