“Spending time in hell is not my idea of something that one should do,” says poet Lorna Goodison, yet she immersed herself there for years to create <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-inferno-dante-alighieri/f9451016f10811b7?ean=9781550656787&next=t&aid=10066&listref=featured-on-the-on-being-podcast">her extraordinary modern Jamaican translation of Dante’s Inferno</a>. We are thrilled to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Lorna, recorded as an online component of the Greenbelt Festival in England in 2025. She reads from her work, and together, they discuss Lorna’s inspiration for her underworld undertaking, how she found her Virgil, and why she calls The Inferno “bitter, necessary medicine for now.”   We invite you to subscribe to <a href="https://poetryunbound.substack.com">Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack</a>, read the <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-padraig-o-tuama">Poetry Unbound books</a> and his newest work, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/kitchen-hymns-p-draig-tuama/4f2a036b5d746205?aid=10066&ean=9781556597107&listref=books-by-padraig-o-tuama&next=t">Kitchen Hymns</a>, or <a href="http://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/">listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes</a>.  Caribbean poet Lorna Goodison was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2017. In 2018, she received a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, and in 2019 she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.<a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/poetry-unbound-in-conversation-lorna-goodison/#transcript">Find the transcript </a>for this show at <a href="http://onbeing.org">onbeing.org.</a> Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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