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The episode features an interview with Cathy Galvin about her poetry collection and includes insights from poet John F. Deane.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we go to one of our favourite places in Dublin, Hodges Figgis bookshop in Dawson Street, to interview Cathy Galvin on the occasion of the launch of her collection of poems from Bloodaxe, Ethnology, A Love Song for Connemara. We also meet and hear poet John F. Deane, who spoke about Cathy’s book and read some of his own recently published Carcanet collection, Jonah and Me, a Poetry Society Recommendation. from Bloodaxe: Ethnology draws on the mystical cry f...

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