Seán Hewitt: Seán, Welcome to the second season of The Glimpse. It's a place for poets, poems and you.
And so when I read this poem, I cried, I laughed and I gasped. Seán Hewitt: I'm your host. Seán Hewitt, poet and writer, and most recently, the author of the novel Open Heaven. This season, we focus on Irish poets and poetry,
I talk to people who do have a real fluency in Irish, and then I ignore them. Seán Hewitt: Each episode, I'll speak with one poet about two poems, one of their own, and another that has inspired their work.
I have like exclamation points written in the book.
How do you stay really close to emotion and distance from it? I think we need to do that as poets.
I don't really know what's happening in this poem that has not in any way diminished how much I love it Seán Hewitt: From page to podcast, The Glimpse offers a peek behind the process of poets and their poetry.
The process is harder when you're being commissioned, but the journey, especially when you get it right at the end, it's it's always pride, Míchéal McCann: I think, like all good poems, if you're thinking about reception or historicity or whatever, it's gonna not be worth toilet paper. Seán Hewitt: Our guests this season include Míchéal McCann, Martina Evans, Parker Hibbert, Nithy Kasa, Kit Fryatt, Victoria Kennefick, Stephen Sexton and Jane Clarke.
It's a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found. Seán Hewitt: You can find Season Two of The Glimpse, starting March 18th. Wherever you get your podcasts. The Glimpse is an audio production of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. you.