Pádraig Ó Tuama

Jan 30, 2025 | waterstones.com | Pádraig Ó Tuama

Paperback 96 Pages Published: 30/01/2025 Free UK delivery on orders over £25, otherwise £2.99 Usually dispatched within 1-2 days Free UK delivery on orders over £25, otherwise £2.99 This item has been added to your basket Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Padraig O Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor devotion. A man asks himself if he believes in God and turns to language...

Aug 31, 2024 | poetryunbound.substack.com | Pádraig Ó Tuama

Dear friends,This week I have been listening to David Naimon’s interview with the French poet-philosopher-feminist-critic-theorist Hélène Cixous. It’s two hours long and brilliant and dense and overwhelming. I love David’s podcast because he reads everything so carefully and crafts precise essay-like prompts that elicit all kinds of answers from his interviewees. I also like Hélène Cixous. She was born in Algeria to a German Jewish mother and a North African Sephardic Jewish father.

Jul 29, 2024 | maryroblyn.substack.com | Sarah Fay |Pádraig Ó Tuama |Mary Roblyn |B W Bruso

Dear Reader: You know me on Substack for poems and personal essays. I write from my life. I’m a mother, a widow, a lover of cats and French press coffee. I’m someone trying to make her way in a world transformed by grief. Substack is a community. It’s my new home. I write from hurt, loss, and sorrow. But mostly, I write from joy. Joy cannot exist without gratitude. You’ll be getting one of my essays tomorrow. I think it’s a pretty good one: a story about losing the diamond from my engagement ring.

Apr 25, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Pádraig Ó Tuama

If you pass, know that you will have no say about what happens. Some of our people will hate you as they hate themselves. You must create a life without giving them all your life’s attention. Some people will delight in destroying you. Some will strike you. Some will choose others as their favorites. Some have been waiting for you for generations; circling, like hunters, round your little heart. Of course they don’t know you. This truth will set you free, eventually. But only after you’ve forgotten this.

Apr 15, 2024 | thecorners.substack.com | Nadia Bolz-weber |Pádraig Ó Tuama

My longtime friend Padraig was the perfect presider for this wedding between a heathen and a LutheranThere is nobody here who has not been hurtand who has not known death. There is nobody here who has not known loveand who has not known life. Everyone in this roomis linked to many people not in this room. We are here beca…