JANUARY 2023 - AudioFile
Based on the popular podcast “Poetry Unbound,” this audiobook is a fine anthology of poetry, as well as a very good introduction, for those who need it, to how to think about poetry. Even old poetry hands will enjoy and appreciate Pádraig O Tuama’s brief and insightful essays accompanying each poem, as well as the poems themselves, many of which are likely to be unfamiliar even to experienced listeners. O Tuama clearly has thought deeply about how poems should sound, and even the shortest here (only 10 words long) is given shades of meaning by his performance. He is an especially good interpreter of poetry, both as a critic and as a reader. D.M.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine
New York Times bestselling author Stephen Fry
Magnificent…Ó Tuama’s abilities as a curator of poems, combined with his remarkable gift for unpacking poems in such illuminating and generous ways, make this ground-breaking publication one of the most engrossing books I have read in recent years."
AudioFile
This audiobook is a fine anthology of poetry, as well as a very good introduction, for those who need it, to how to think about poetry…Even the shortest here (only ten words long) is given shades of meaning by his performance. He is an especially good interpreter of poetry, both as a critic and as a reader. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
AudioFile Earphone Award Winner
O Tuama clearly has thought deeply about how poems should sound, and even the shortest here (only 10 words long) is given shades of meaning by his performance. He is an especially good interpreter of poetry, both as a critic and as a reader.
JANUARY 2023 - AudioFile
Based on the popular podcast “Poetry Unbound,” this audiobook is a fine anthology of poetry, as well as a very good introduction, for those who need it, to how to think about poetry. Even old poetry hands will enjoy and appreciate Pádraig O Tuama’s brief and insightful essays accompanying each poem, as well as the poems themselves, many of which are likely to be unfamiliar even to experienced listeners. O Tuama clearly has thought deeply about how poems should sound, and even the shortest here (only 10 words long) is given shades of meaning by his performance. He is an especially good interpreter of poetry, both as a critic and as a reader. D.M.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine