As chosen by the Poetry Programme, our Poem of the Week is an extract from the prose poem Excursion by Kimberly Campanello, which describes a search for Sheela-na-gigs. Listen to Kimberly read from Excursion below:
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Kimberly Campanello was born in Elkhart, Indiana, and is a dual American and Irish citizen. She is fascinated by Sheela-na-gigs and has sought out dozens of these mysterious carved stone figures on churches, castles, walls and bridges all over Ireland. Her collection Strange Country, published by The Dreadful Press, is a full-length collection of poems about Sheela-na-gigs.
Previous publications include her first full-length poetry collection Consent, published by Doire Press in 2013, and a pamphlet, Spinning Cities, published by Wurm Press in 2011. In May 2015, New Dublin Press published imagines, a limited edition book of poems by Campanello and musical scores by composer Benjamin Dwyer with audio recordings by Garth Knox (viola) and Campanello (poetry).
Kimberly Campanello was a guest on the Poetry Programme earlier this year - you can listen back to the interview here.
The current series of the Poetry Programme returns on Saturday 3 December at 7:30 pm.
