AD 176 | Pádraig Ó Tuama
“The Gentle Language”
“The Gentle Language”
Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and theologian from Ireland whose poetry and prose has been published widely across Ireland, the US and the UK. He presents Poetry Unbound with On Being, a hugely successful podcast where he explores a single poem. Short and unhurried; contemplative and energizing, this podcast had more than a million downloads of its first season. The second season starts 28th September. Mondays and Fridays for twelve weeks.
Show Notes:
- What Padraig’s poem means to him, reflecting back on it
- Life being circular
- Padraig’s writing process
- The beauty in the confluence of various things coming together
- Padraig’s roots within writing poetry
- Embracing the flourishing of life
- Isolation within artists
- The “peasant poet”
- Cultural conflict
- Shelter and the shadow
- Leaning into self-discovery within our life
- Considering things that have been ingrained within us and actively challenging their purpose within our live
- Poetry being the unfolding of the unexpected
- Finding beauty within the imperfections
- Being interested in looking
- Meditation within daily life
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Posted 09.23.2021