Poet Pádraig Ó Tuama in conversation

Pádraig Ó Tuama’s poetry and prose centre around themes of language, power, conflict and religion. His work has won acclaim in circles of poetry, politics, psychotherapy and conflict analysis. His formal qualifications (PhD, MTh and BA) cover creative writing, literary criticism and theology. Alongside this, he pursued vocational training in conflict analysis, specialising in groupwork.

His published work is in the fields of poetry, anthology, essay, memoir, theology and conflict. Profiled in The New Yorker, Pádraig’s poems have been featured in Poetry Ireland Review, Ploughshares, Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review, New England Review, Raidió Teilifís Éireann’s Poem of the Week, and the Kenyon Review.

His books include:

Kitchen Hymns (poetry) CHEERIO and Copper Canyon Press, Jan 2025, 44 Poems on Being with Each Other (Anthology) Canongate and WW Norton, Jan 2025, Feed the Beast (poetry) Broken Sleep Books, December 2022, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (anthology). Canongate and WW Norton, October 2022, A Casual Kindness (poetry written in collaboration with Vox Liminis; a project working with those affected by the criminal justice system in Scotland). Tapsalteerie 2022, In the Shelter, (memoir) North America edition, Broadleaf Books, Feb 2021.