Marie Howe’s poetry shimmers with the keen attention she pays to language: the language of the body (both the human body and “the beautiful body of the world”), of people’s everyday speech, and of religious myth. We are thrilled to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Marie, recorded as an online component of the Greenbelt Festival in England in 2025. Marie reads several poems, and together, they discuss Mary Magdalene as complex everywoman, the “eternal energy” of dead loved ones that fills Marie’s life and work, and her current efforts to listen to what the Earth is saying to us.    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>.  Marie Howe is the former Poet Laureate of New York and the author of five collections of poetry, including Magdalene, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-kingdom-of-ordinary-time-marie-howe/9618c2a6c10fdf78?aid=10066&ean=9780393337341&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast&next=t">The Kingdom of Ordinary Time</a>, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/what-the-living-do-poems-marie-howe/f825b987b2dda798?ean=9780393318869&next=t">What the Living Do</a>. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2025 <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/new-and-selected-poems-marie-howe/a1165fdf4b55d9d1?aid=10066&ean=9781324117674&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast&next=t">New and Selected Poems</a>, published in the US by W .W. Norton. The same book is published in the UK as <a href="https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/what-the-earth-seemed-to-say-1360">What the Earth Seemed to Say</a> by Bloodaxe Books. <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/poetry-unbound-in-conversation-marie-howe/#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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