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About Pádraig: Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and theologian from Ireland whose poetry and prose have been published widely across Ireland, the US, and the UK. He presents Poetry Unbound with On Being, a hugely successful podcast where he explores a single poem. Short and unhurried; contemplative and energizing, this podcast had more than a million downloads of its first season. The second season starts on the 28th of September. Mondays and Fridays for twelve weeks. Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• What Padraig's poem means to him, reflecting back on it
• Life being circular
• Padraig's writing process
• The beauty in the confluence of various things coming together
• Padraig's roots within writing poetry
• Embracing the flourishing of life
• Isolation within artists
• The "peasant poet"
• Cultural conflict
• Shelter and the shadow
• Leaning into self-discovery within our life
• Considering things that have been ingrained within us and actively challenging their purpose within our live
• Poetry being the unfolding of the unexpected
• Finding beauty within the imperfections
• Being interested in looking
• Meditation within daily life

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