01/10/2026
Happy National Poetry Day everybody. We have something really beautiful for you today.
Pádraig Ó Tuama in conversation as the second poet of our podcast series x
Hayley Frances spoke with Pádraig Ó Tuama about his new collection, Love Between Men, published by Cheerio Publishing and Copper Canyon Press.
The book reimagines Adam, Eve, and God into intimate, abrasive voices, explores the poet’s personal survival through and resistance against exorcism and gay conversion reparative therapies, and fuses rage with prayer, examining history, empire, language, and the limits of communication.
We talked about birds, we talked about Marie Howe, sequencing, autobiographical aspects of the work, and how the work intersects with readers; form, spirit, and essentially how to write with really simple language and the importance of that to give us the skeleton of what it is that we really want to say.
I absolutely adored this, and it follows our first interview with Tishani Doshi and it comes before our next interview, which will be with Roshni Gallagher.
So enjoy and thank you for listening to our Conversations with Poets podcast.
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