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52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond Stillness

52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond Stillness

Update: 2022-11-10
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Today we talk to Liam Carson, Director of annual Irish language festival Imram, about this year's programme. And we interview Mark Roper about his latest collection of poems, Beyond Stillness, of which Martina Evans wrote in the Irish Times:

Roper has an unerring sense of the gulfs between the miracle and damnation, life’s beginning and its end:

As I dragged the dead hare
from the road, a crack of bone.
Those marvellous feet, mishandled.
Its shadow waits on the moon
but the hare is nailed to earth.

(The Hare)

 Mark will be reading from Beyond Stillness at 3.00 pm on Sunday 27 November in Books Upstairs, D’Olier Street, Dublin, and in The Molly Keane House, Dysert, Ardmore  on Thursday 8 December, time to be confirmed. 

Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.

Artwork by Freya Sirr

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52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond Stillness

52: IMRAM 2022; Mark Roper's Beyond Stillness

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