This is Episode 50 of the podcast. Sincere thank you to everyone who has listened over these past two months, and thanks also to you this is your first time listening to the podcast.

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Today’s poem is “Hideout” by Desmond Egan.

Desmond Egan is a prolific Irish poet who has published almost 30 collections during his career. 

This poem is from one of his most recent collections, "Epic", which was published in 2015. 

I chose it because it captures something that feels resonant right now.

Our world seems to crowd in around us — either physically in towns or cities, or psychologically, in how we spend so much of our time now lost in the overwhelming noise of the online world. 

It is, I think, for most of us, an increasingly rare opportunity to escape that noise, to find the silence that the poet found beside this little stream.

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