"An 8-minute podcast is a brilliant idea. But equally so is that Irish poet and storyteller extraordinaire Padraig O Tuama has gorgeously curated the content: one poem per podcast, which he reads then unpacks with examples from his and others’ lives. Then he reads the poem again. 

"Even if we’re someone who doesn’t “get” poetry, the poems make if not literal sense, then emotional sense through his translation. 

"If we've been on the deep freeze we can thaw in their familiarity. Armored up, we get to let down our guard as we’re reminded of our essential humanness: sometimes raw, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes lost or alone, which we discover doesn’t make us less ourselves, but more. Return, is the offering, to our better selves."

Podcast: On Being: Poetry Unbound