(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and James O’Leary Discussion
(03:30) – Matthew Dickman interview
(56:35) – Southword poem, Missing by Daragh Byrne

Matthew Dickman grew up in Lents, a working-class area of Portland, Oregon. He earned a BA at the University of Oregon and an MFA at the University of Texas-Austin’s Michener Center. He is the author of the poetry collections Husbandry (2022), Wonderland (2018), Mayakovsky's Revolver (2014), 50 American Poems (cowritten with Michael Dickman, 2012), and All American Poem (2008).

This week's Southword poem is 'Missing' by Daragh Byrne, which appears in issue 43. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find out how to submit to Southword here.

(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and James O’Leary Discussion
(02:46) - John W. Sexton interview
(01:00:32) - Southword poem, Doors Opening, Doors Closing by Aidan Matthews

John W. Sexton was born in 1958 and identifies with the Aisling poetic tradition. His work spans vision poetry, contemporary fabulism and tangential surrealism. He is the author of seven poetry collections including The Offspring of the Moon (Salmon Poetry 2013), Futures Pass (Salmon Poetry 2018), Visions at Templeglantine (Revival Press 2020) and The Nothingness Kit (Beir Bua Press 2022). A chapbook of his surrealist poetry, Inverted Night, came out from SurVision in April 2019. His next collection, The World Under the World, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry.

This week's Southword poem is ‘Doors Opening, Doors Closing' by Aidan Matthews, which appears in issue 44. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find out how to submit to Southword here.

(00:00) – Clíona Ní Ríordáin and James O’Leary Discussion
(03:32) - Gail McConnell interview
(01:01:50) - Southword poem, 13.58, January 28th 2022 by James McDermott

Gail McConnell is from Belfast. She is the author of of The Sun is Open (Penned in the Margins, 2021) and two poetry pamphlets: Fothermather (Ink Sweat & Tears, 2019) and Fourteen (Green Bottle Press, 2018). Fothermather was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. Gail’s poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, PN Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Blackbox Manifold and Stand, and she is the recipient of two awards from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She has made two programmes based on her poetry for BBC Radio 4: Fothermather and The Open Box. She is Reader in English at Queen’s University Belfast and the author of Northern Irish Poetry and Theology (Palgrave, 2014). Gail’s writing interests include violence, creatureliness, queerness and the possibilities and politics of language and form.

This week's Southword poem is ‘13.58, January 28th 2022' by James McDermott, which appears in issue 43. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find out how to submit to Southword here.