Being Earnest With Hazel Hogan

Flow, Seamus Heaney, Letter to Leo Varadkar and Whats The Story with The Poet Geoff


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With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired.


Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats.

The Poet Geoff was the writer in residence for Dublin City Council for the Dublin North West area in the summer of 2018, and again this year, working on the show When I Grow Up. This year he had the honour of writing the 100 year commemorative poem celebrating the first Dáil in Ireland titled ‘January 1919’. Geoff was recently commissioned as part of the Dublin’s Culture Connects project to write for the Local Heroes initiative. Geoff’s poem A Letter To Leo was chosen as the flagship piece for the My Name Is campaign against child homelessness in Ireland.    Geoff has written and performed a poem for the documentary Baristas, which has gone to number 1 in 8 countries, top 10 in the Us and Uk and top 5 in Canada in the documentary charts.    Geoff is currently working with First Fortnight and the Travelling Community on a piece that aims to address the reasons behind the high levels of suicide among Travellers today.    Geoff been featured on RTÉ, TV3, Today Fm, 98 FM, FM104 and Newstalk and in The Sunday Business Post and The New York Times.
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Photography: Caitríona Muireann
Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library
Equipment: Colm Ó Raghallaigh
Special Thanks to Jen Butler
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