Gary interviews Aideen on the themes of her third collection of poetry, A Bloodless Field. She reads the following poems: Reprieve (on the splendour of a woman’s body before she gives birth), Not Dead, Sleeping (on the quiescence of the womb after menopause), Belonging (about the sense of tribal connection in a line dance) and A Bloodless Field (an exploration of removal emotion from physical intimate connection).
Shane Breslin has selected, Warming Down, from the collection, Slow Bruise as the poem for the day on the podcast, Poems for the Speed of Life. He discusses the themes and reads from the poem.
Parked is about desire for the forbidden, for the erotic. A young couple find themselves full of the kind of yearning that fuels infidelity. Eros has left their marriage and has moved out into their world causing them havoc. Parked was shortlisted for the PJ O’Connor Award and selected to be produced by RTE Radio. Gorretti Slevin directed it and actors, Aaron Monaghan & Dawn Bradfield, performed it.
Seán interviews Aideen on the themes of her second poetry collection, Slow Bruise. She reads the following poems from the collection, Word Ancestors (an exploration of bilinguality), Month’s Mind (on grief) and Pocket Lint (on the construct that is personality).
This short story was shortlisted for the Francis McManus Award in 2015 and read by the actor, Marion O’Dwyer, on RTE Radio 1. The story is about the vagaries of close friendships between women.
This short story was shortlisted for the Francis McManus Award in 2012 and read by the actor, Pat Kinevane on RTE Radio 1. It was published in The Dublin Review, Winter 2012.
This short story was shortlisted for the Francis McManus Award in 2011 & read on RTE Radio 1. It is about a young woman’s loss of sense of self after her mother’s death.
