The Glimpse Season Two Trailer

Our second season of The Glimpse is here, featuring lively conversations between poets about their work and about poems that inspire them.

Our host for this season, Seán Hewitt, interviews poets connected to Ireland, including Irish, Northern Irish, and diasporic poets. Guest poets for Season 2 include Victoria Kennefick, Mícheál McCann, Nithy Kasa, Kit Fryatt, Martina Evans, Stephen Sexton, Gustav Parker Hibbett, and Jane Clarke. As in our first season, each guest chooses two poems to read and discuss: one they’ve written, and one by another poet.

The Glimpse is produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, with new episodes available each Tuesday starting in March 2025.

About the host: Seán Hewitt is a poet, memoirist, novelist, and literary critic. His award-winning books across genres include Tongues of Fire, All Down Darkness Wide, and the forthcoming Open, Heaven.

Episode Transcript

Seán Hewitt (00:00):
Seán, Welcome to the second season of The Glimpse. It's

(00:07):
a place for poets, poems and you.

Victoria Kennefick (00:10):
And so when I read this poem, I cried, I laughed
and I gasped.

Seán Hewitt (00:16):
I'm your host. Seán Hewitt, poet and writer, and most
recently, the author of the novelOpen Heaven. This season, we focus
on Irish poets and poetry,

Kit Fryatt (00:27):
I talk to people who do have a real fluency in Irish, and
then I ignore them.

Seán Hewitt (00:37):
Each episode, I'll speak with one poet about two
poems, one of their own, andanother that has inspired their
work.

Parker Hibbett (00:44):
I have like exclamation points written in the
book.

Jane Clarke (00:47):
How do you stay really close to emotion and distance from
it? I think we need to do that aspoets.

Stephen Sexton (00:55):
I don't really know what's happening in this poem that
has not in any way diminished howmuch I love it

Seán Hewitt (01:01):
From page to podcast, The Glimpse offers a peek behind
the process of poets and theirpoetry.

Nithy Kasa (01:06):
The process is harder when you're being commissioned, but
the journey, especially when youget it right at the end, it's it's
always pride,

Míchéal McCann (01:15):
I think, like all good poems, if you're thinking
about reception or historicity orwhatever, it's gonna not be worth
toilet paper.

Seán Hewitt (01:25):
Our guests this season include Míchéal McCann, Martina
Evans, Parker Hibbert, Nithy Kasa,Kit Fryatt, Victoria Kennefick,
Stephen Sexton and Jane Clarke.

Martina Evans (01:36):
It's a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be
found.

Seán Hewitt (01:40):
You can find Season Two of The Glimpse, starting March
18th. Wherever you get yourpodcasts. The Glimpse is an audio
production of the AdrianBrinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.
you.