Explore Irish poetry with Seán Hewitt
Our second season of The Glimpse is here, featuring lively conversations between poets about their work and about poems that inspire them.
Our host for this season, Seán Hewitt, interviews poets connected to Ireland, including Irish, Northern Irish, and diasporic poets. Guest poets for Season 2 include Victoria Kennefick, Mícheál McCann, Nithy Kasa, Kit Fryatt, Martina Evans, Stephen Sexton, Gustav Parker Hibbett, and Jane Clarke. As in our first season, each guest chooses two poems to read and discuss: one they’ve written, and one by another poet.
The Glimpse is produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, with new episodes available each Tuesday starting in March 2025.
About the host: Seán Hewitt is a poet, memoirist, novelist, and literary critic. His award-winning books across genres include Tongues of Fire, All Down Darkness Wide, and the forthcoming Open, Heaven.
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Transcript of episode
Seán Hewitt
Welcome to the second season of The Glimpse. It’s a place for poets, poems and you.
Victoria Kennefick
And so when I read this poem, I cried, I laughed, and I gasped.
Seán
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.
Kit Fryatt
I talk to people who do have a real fluency in Irish, and then I ignore them.
Seán
Each episode I’ll speak with one poet about two poems:one of their own and another that has inspired their work.
Gustav Parker Hibbett
I have, like, exclamation points written in the book.
Jane Clarke
How do you stay really close to emotion and distance from it? I think we need to do that as poets.
Stephen Sexton
I don't really know what's happening in this poem. That has not in any way diminished how much I love it.
Seán
From page to podcast, The Glimpse offers a peek behind the process of poets and their poetry.
Nithy Kasa
The process is harder when you're being commissioned, but the journey, especially when you get it right at the end, it's always pride.
Mícheál 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
Our guests this season include Mícheál McCann, Martina Evans, Parker Hibbett, Nithy Kasa, Kit Fryatt, Victoria Kennefick, Stephen Sexton, and Jane Clarke.
Martina Evans
It's a joy to be hidden but a disaster not to be found.
Seán
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.