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Unlaunched Books - Poetry Ireland's podcast with Linda McKenna

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Poets John McAuliffe, Seán Hewitt and Victoria Kennefick host the weekly podcast from Poetry Ireland, in which they talk to poets, critics, curators and readers about the books they would have been launching and talking about during the months of April, May and June 2020, before the pandemic led to the cancellation of all poetry festivals and launches in Ireland - listen to the latest episode above.

In this week's podcast, Seán talks to Linda McKenna about her first collection In the Museum of Misremembered Things, Rozz Lewis reports on her pandemic project The Holding Cell and its National Poetry Day feature, while Pádraig O Tuama chooses a WB Yeats poem as his "Poem in a Pandemic".

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