
Poetry Unbound
by On Being Studios
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Audience Interest
- poetry analysis and interpretation
- literary exploration and discussion
Podcast Focus
- exploration of individual poems
- insights from Pádraig Ó Tuama
Publishing Consistency
- weekly or more frequent episodes
- active for six years
Platform Reach
- available on major podcast platforms
- Substack newsletter for engagement
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Total monthly reach
Estimated from 33 chart positions in 33 markets.
By chart position
- 🇨🇦CA · Books#18300K to 1M
- 🇦🇺AU · Books#19300K to 1M
- 🇺🇸US · Books#25100K to 300K
- 🇬🇧GB · Books#31100K to 300K
- 🇮🇳IN · Books#5030K to 100K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
484K to 1.6M🎙 Weekly cadence·218 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
967K to 3.2M🇨🇦31%🇦🇺31%🇺🇸9%+30 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
290K to 953K
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From 15 epsHosts
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Recent episodes
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Adrian Matejka
Aug 21, 2026
Unknown duration
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Karen Leeder
Aug 7, 2026
Unknown duration
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Richard Scott
Jul 24, 2026
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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 2 of 2
Jul 10, 2026
38m 16s
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 1 of 2
Jun 26, 2026
50m 12s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/21/26 | Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Adrian Matejka | “For me, if a poem doesn't swing, it's really not much of a poem,” says Adrian Matejka, author of the collection Be Easy: New and Selected Poems. His work hums with music, from its references to David Bowie, Miles Davis, and others to its infectious rhythms, repetitions, and rhymes. In this lively conversation recorded in 2024 at the Wick Poetry Center in Ohio, he reads several poems, and he and Pádraig Ó Tuama talk about “the imaginary discotheque” that takes place in Adrian’s head when he writes, how metaphor and simile offer a third space for his ideas to reach people, and his intense interest in exploring “masculinities” in all their expressions and emotions. We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes. | — | ||||||
| 8/7/26 | Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Karen Leeder | After listening to this exuberant interview, you’ll retire the phrase “lost in translation” from your vocabulary. Instead, writer and scholar Karen Leeder believes poetry can expand when translated, reaching new audiences and gaining new layers of meaning. Karen joins Pádraig Ó Tuama in an interview recorded in 2025 after she and Durs Grünbein were co-awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize for her translation of Psyche Running, which Durs wrote. In addition to reading from her work, she explains what it’s like to translate a poet who is very much alive and why she thinks translation can help “explode” insularity and xenophobia. We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes. | — | ||||||
| 7/24/26 | Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Richard Scott | “Poetry means paying attention in a different way to the world and seeing what wisdom you're given back in return for that attention,” says Richard Scott in this conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama, recorded during the 2025 Collective Trauma Summit. Richard’s second collection, That Broke Into Shining Crystals, features sequences that focus on two hypnotically compelling subjects: still-life paintings and crystals. From them, he’s created poems that thrum with music, memory, harm, and healing. Richard reads from his book, and he and Pádraig discuss the “surprising life” to be found in still lifes, the difference between the speaker vs. the poet, and how crystals — the beautiful result of “unimaginable” pressure and breakage — can offer us a way to think about trauma. We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes. | — | ||||||
| 7/10/26 | visual poetrychild mortality+4 | Kimberly Campanello | St. Mary's Mother and Baby HomeMOTHERBABYHOME | Tuam | visual poetryMOTHERBABYHOME+5 | — | 38m 16s | ||
| 6/26/26 | Dante's Infernotranslation+4 | Kimberly Campanello | Dante’s InfernoKitchen Hymns | — | Dante's InfernoKimberly Campanello+6 | — | 50m 12s | ||
| 6/12/26 | poetrygrace+4 | Rachel MannYomi Ṣode | Kitchen Hymns | — | poetrygrace+5 | — | 55m 31s | ||
| 5/29/26 | poetryidentity+5 | Fady Joudah | Jackson Poetry PrizeKitchen Hymns | — | Fady Joudahpoetry+6 | — | 46m 30s | ||
| 5/15/26 | poetryinterview+5 | Don McKay | Griffin Poetry Prizes | Newfoundland | Don McKaypoetry+5 | — | 45m 20s | ||
| 3/9/26 | poetryliterature+1 | — | Poetry Unbound SubstackKitchen Hymns+4 | — | Walter de la MareThe Listeners+3 | — | 9m 16s | ||
| 3/6/26 | Leonard Cohenpoetry+3 | — | Kitchen HymnsBook of Mercy+3 | — | gymnastskater+3 | — | 16m 34s | ||
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| 3/2/26 | poetryperspective+2 | Billy-Ray Belcourt | Kitchen HymnsSubarctica+2 | — | upliftedcurious+2 | — | 17m 46s | ||
| 2/27/26 | poetryfood+2 | — | Kitchen HymnsCarne+2 | — | Ruth Irupé SanabriaCarne+3 | — | 17m 18s | ||
| 2/23/26 | loveviolence+3 | Lena Khalaf Tuffaha | Kitchen HymnsPoetry Unbound Substack+2 | — | defiancefatherhood+3 | — | 15m 55s | ||
| 2/20/26 | Trans Day of Remembrancepoetry+2 | Rachel Mann | Kitchen HymnsTDOR+2 | — | empathicuncompromising+3 | — | 20m 32s | ||
| 2/16/26 | RamadanIslam+3 | — | Kitchen HymnsIslam+3 | — | coupletsabstinence+3 | — | 15m 53s | ||
| 2/13/26 | poetryspirituality+2 | — | Kitchen HymnsPrayer+2 | — | Kevin HartPrayer+2 | — | 16m 30s | ||
| 2/9/26 | poetryliterature+2 | — | Kitchen HymnsLUVTOFU+3 | — | Harryette MullenLUVTOFU+3 | — | 14m 57s | ||
| 2/6/26 | lovegrief+2 | Stewart Henderson | Kitchen HymnsHow To Speak Love In A Storm?+2 | — | accompanimenttumult+1 | — | 15m 32s | ||
| 2/2/26 | Dante Micheaux — Theologies for Korah | Dante Micheaux’s rich and rollicking poem “Theologies for Korah” is written on the occasion of an infant’s baptism, but it’s anything but baby talk or bland instruction. Religious figures, rites, and symbols are proffered, not as liturgy or lore to be swallowed whole, eyes shut, but as people, stories, and ideas that cry out to be seen, played with, and engaged with. We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes. | — | ||||||
| 1/30/26 | Oksana Maksymchuk — Arguments for Peace | “How could there be a war in this city?” is the plaintive question that starts Oksana Makysymchuk’s “Arguments for Peace”. Like ours, the world of her poem holds both the “goodness of the universe” and “a foreign leader / warning of invasion”. She offers no pat answers for what to do in the face of conflict — just a dizzying sense of disbelief and the deep desire to hold tight to the people and life around us. We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes. | — | ||||||
| 1/28/26 | Armen Davoudian — Coming Out of the Shower | In Armen Davoudian’s casually intimate poem “Coming Out of the Shower”, mother and son perform their morning routines in the small, shared space of their household’s only bathroom. She chats and puts on her makeup, while he showers and uses her shampoo and robe — oh what rhythm, affection, and ease are to be seen in this dance they both know so well. We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | Orlando Ricardo Menes — Grace | Some religions and some people have very specific ideas about “grace”, and that includes poet Orlando Ricardo Menes. In the carefully constructed “Grace”, he manages to both demystify and remystify what grace is, leaving us with the possibility that at any moment or no moment it could pour down and quench us all. Intrigued? Confused? Give this episode a listen. We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes. | — | ||||||
| 1/19/26 | Cyrus Cassells — Jasmine | In fewer than two dozen lines, Cyrus Cassells’s poem “Jasmine” offers readers a multisensory, cinematic immersion into late spring life in Rome. Not only is the “sweet, steady broadcast” of jasmine ever-present amid “the joyous braiding of sun and rain”, but there’s also Daria, a “crone-glorious” neighbor, with a story about her romance with the gallant Galliano. It’s la dolce vita, without overindulgence or artifice. We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes. | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | W.S. Merwin — For The Anniversary of My Death | W.S. Merwin’s “For The Anniversary of My Death” is a slim, precise poem — just 13 lines made up of 84 words — about the very weightiest of subjects, one’s future death. With it, Merwin has crafted an elegant vessel, a small and sturdy container to hold some of life’s big questions, uncertainties, and feelings. Are you ready to gaze at it, grasp it, sit with it? And as you contemplate death, he gently reminds, remain here — where there’s rain, birdsong, and life right in front of you. | — | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | Kimblerly Blaeser - my journal records the vestiture of doppelgangers | Words can’t quite fully capture the activity, oddity, and awe that is everywhere around us, but poet Kimberly Blaeser makes a gorgeous attempt in her poem “my journal records the vestiture of doppelgangers.” The three stanzas overflow with an exuberance of colorful creatures — from checked loons and flitting mayflies to a “blissful beaver” and a “red squirrel swimming (yes! swimming)” — and with love — love of the natural world, of looking, of language, of the language of looking, and of being present for such everyday wonders. We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes. | — | ||||||
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About the show, platforms, and key insights.
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About the show, platforms, and key insights.
Key insights
What the show covers
- exploration of individual poems
- insights from Pádraig Ó Tuama
- wisdom and questions from poetry
- immersion in poetic themes
Audience interests
- poetry analysis and interpretation
- literary exploration and discussion
- cultural and societal themes
- relationships and personal reflections
Platform reach
- available on major podcast platforms
- Substack newsletter for engagement
- book related to podcast content
- occasional community gatherings
Publishing consistency
- weekly or more frequent episodes
- active for six years
- 218 episodes published
- consistent release schedule
Chart history for Poetry Unbound
Peaked at #7 in PH, top 10 in 1 of 50 tracked markets, currently #7 in PH.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH | — | #7 | #7 | — |
| NG | — | #16 | #16 | — |
| PH | — | #17 | #17 | — |
| Canada | — | #18 | #18 | — |
| Australia | — | #19 | #19 | — |
| Ireland | — | #24 | #24 | — |
| United States | — | #25 | #25 | — |
| ID | — | #26 | #26 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #31 | #31 | — |
| South Africa | — | #45 | #45 | — |
| NG | — | #45 | #45 | — |
| Canada | — | #46 | #46 | — |
| Australia | — | #47 | #47 | — |
| Finland | — | #47 | #47 | — |
| India | — | #50 | #50 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #52 | #52 | — |
| ID | — | #58 | #58 | — |
| Ireland | — | #60 | #60 | — |
| Sweden | — | #68 | #68 | — |
| PE | — | #69 | #69 | — |
Chart Positions
50 placements across 33 markets.
Chart Positions
50 placements across 33 markets.