In Richard Langston’s poem “Hill walk,” he proffers a handful of things that move us over the course of a day — words said or read, notes played, the sight of halting steps taken by a sibling. We marvel at the sound of an unfamiliar bird call, but there’s a startling mystery to the human heart and what it responds to (or doesn’t) and one that we don’t always mark.Richard Langston is a veteran broadcast journalist and director. He comes from Dunedin, New Zealand, and was a driving force in the city’s music scene in the 1980s. He now lives in Wellington and is a proud member of the three-person South Wellington Poetry Society. His poetry collection, <a href="https://thecubapress.nz/shop/shadows/?srsltid=AfmBOoqG_1RkpHNRcijZoQNy29nhfCYH9TI26-Y07FUXxmWIIYkdO22a">Five O’Clock Shadows</a>, was published in 2020 by The Cuba Press.<a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/richard-langston-hill-walk/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at onbeing.org.We’re pleased to offer Richard Langston’s poem and invite you to subscribe to <a href="https://poetryunbound.substack.com/">Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack</a> newsletter, read <a href="https://linktr.ee/poetryunbound">the Poetry Unbound book</a>, or listen to past episodes of the podcast. We also have two books coming out in early 2025 — <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/kitchen-hymns/21131749?ean=9781556597107">Kitchen Hymns</a> (new poems from Pádraig)<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/kitchen-hymns/21131749?ean=9781556597107"> </a>and <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/40-poems-on-being-with-each-other-a-poetry-unbound-collection-padraig-o-tuama/21077256?ean=9781324086161">44 Poems on Being with Each Other</a> (new essays by Pádraig). You can pre-order them wherever you buy books.

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