Episode 627: David McLoghlin!

June 8, 2024

Episode 627: David McLoghlin!

On this week’s show, I talk to the poet David McLoghlin about his newest collection of poems, Crash Centre, history, religion, rugby, boarding school, trauma, and exiting the comforts of metaphor.

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Buy Crash Centre here.

NOTES

Check out our earlier conversion back on episode 309.

Check out David reading Rilke’s “Presentiment” back on episode 275.

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2 responses to “Episode 627: David McLoghlin!”

D J Rout

June 11, 2024 at 7:48 pm

Great to hear a poet in touch with reality without being self-consciously crass. I mean, he’s had an awful time at the hands of whoever you bleeped, and I can accept the rugby because Tolkien played it (even though as a loyal Australian I follow a truly athletic game which is not soccer!), the important thing is that his poetry and conversation are not so ethereal that there’s no connection between it and a life anyone could even know of, let alone live.

More succinctly, I like the idea of poetry at the pub, so long as it’s poetry that talks about the pub and the people, things and observations that you can draw a line to from the pub. Or Central Park. Maybe even a scrum…

Another great episode!

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1. thedrunkenodyssey
  
  June 11, 2024 at 9:56 pm
  
  I am glad you liked it, dear friend. 🙂
  
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