radiosIn these months without television, I have discovered World Music on BBC Radio 3, and have been blown away by it. I love what goes on in Late Junction, and try to catch each show. I’ve just listened to Sunday’s show by Andy Kershaw, in which he wanders around Marseilles and introduces us to [...]
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I’m on a train, Italian, to Dublin, late. A phonecall – “can you speak on radio about Ginsberg and Howl? Tomorrow morning?”Erm, “I’m on a train. Then, a plane. I’ve no books. I’ll think of something.”
A man comes in. Multicoloured mother-baked jumper, matted hair, beads adorning a wrist or two, smells of subway piss, might [...]
faithache
(on listening to johann sebastian bach 24/7)
a new ravine opens
blue-black with mist, coniferous
vociferous to trumpets
a preying bird traces
coiled springs of air
unfurling
from heaven
lazybones, coasting
to soaring strings
clear
aerial
incantation
cresting exaltation
breathless
crick-necked, agape – again!
until i ache
surfeit: union
pure.
a meek surrender:
if this is faith
i cannot reach
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The good folk at NEAR fm 101.6 have put the interview they did with me on 1st December up on their regular podcast. A community radio station, they were the first radio station in Ireland to use podcasting. I was on their book programme, Cover to Cover, and it was a nice chat with [...]
Kate Bush is my adolescence, my yin, my yearning. I listen to Kate and it’s as if I never left those heartsick years, I’m still waiting for that man with the child in his eyes. She moves me to my soul. Listening to her talk on this Radio 2 documentary on 19th November is a [...]
I had an interview with Matt Cooper on The Last Word, Today FM’s news and interview programme. I arrived in a bit of a fluster, having gotten a bit lost, and it was straight in, rabbit on, and out the door in ten minutes. I felt I was a bit speedy.
I’ve been going through my old cassette tapes recently, and copying some of them to my hard drive. Along the way, I came across this recording of a 40-minute documentary on Radio 4 that was broadcast in 1993, the year that homosexuality was decriminalized in Ireland. It was in the days before people had really [...]
Interesting
