Peter Steele Poetry Conversation: Pádraig Ó Tuama

Authors

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  Izzy Roberts-Orr

  Izzy Roberts-Orr is a poet, writer and arts worker based on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in regional Victoria. Her debut poetry collection, Raw Salt (Vagabond Press, 2024) was the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, Bundanon Artist Residency and Shortlisted for the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She is a recipient of the Marten Bequest Scholarship for Poetry, Varuna Pitch Me! Fellowship and the BR Whiting Residency (Rome), and works as Creative Producer for Red Room Poetry.
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  Maxine Beneba Clarke

  Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of over fifteen books for adults and children, including the poetry collections Carrying The World, How Decent Folk Behave and It's the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people, the bestselling memoir The Hate Race and the ABIA and Indie-award winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil. Her children's picture books include the CBCA Honour Book The Patchwork Bike, and the illustrated poem When We Say Black Lives Matter, which was longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. She is currently the inaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence at The University of Melbourne.
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  Pádraig Ó Tuama

  Pádraig Ó Tuama (b. 1975, Ireland) is a poet with interests in language, violence, power, and religion. He is the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound and his eleven books cover poetry, essays, memoir and theology. He has been published in many periodicals and journals, and was profiled in The New Yorker in 2023. This year has seen the publication of Kitchen Hymns, a volume of original poems, and the anthology 44 Poems on Being with Each Other; A Poetry Unbound Collection. He lives in Belfast and New York City. 

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