The Essay Episodes Available now
The Colour of Your Mind—Into the Wild
4/5 Will Harris asks how dreams and poems can teach us to look at the world differently.
When The Birds Sing We Are Safe—Into the Wild
3/5 Are we a part of nature’s orchestra? Hanan Issa listens to a world of poetry and birdsong.
Meditation on Landscape, Bodies and Writing—Into the Wild
2/5 Alycia Pirmohamed explores ecological poetry in the context of brown women’s bodies.
Bird Song and Resonance—Into the Wild
1/5 Raymond Antrobus remembers his time spent living in Oklahoma City during the pandemic.
Euphoria—Another Northern Ireland
5/10 Novelist Glenn Patterson on Belfast's hairdressers and clothes shops during the Troubles.
Chalk on the Wall—Another Northern Ireland
4/10 Writer Claire Mitchell peels back the layers of her hometown to find a radical history.
The Art of Staying—Another Northern Ireland
3/10 Poet Míchéal McCann navigates the careful etiquette of a rural Northern Irish wake.
Searching with Shorelines—Another Northern Ireland
2/10 Poet Gail McConnell on the inspiration of the sea in Louis MacNeice's work and her own.
Traybakes—Another Northern Ireland
1/10 Author Jan Carson on the women who kept her church supplied with tea and traybakes
Enough About the War, Dad—Our Fathers' War
5/5 Dr Howard Shevrin was a psychoanalyst whose war story influenced his later career.
