In episode three, Tara Bergin continues her meditation on the practice of ekphrastic writing - interrogating connections with the human condition. Claire-Louise Bennett and Alice Lyons present new poems inspired by artworks in the Niland Collection, both of which explore the tension between artist and sitter. 

Alice reads Battenberg Hat, a poem inspired by John Butler Yeats’ Portrait of Elizabeth Pollexfen – which depicts the artist’s mother-in-law. The podcast closes with Claire-Louise Bennett reading Lobe - a work inspired by the portrait sketches of George William Russell, otherwise known as Ӕ.