ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Poets with experience of seeking refuge share their writing.
Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Cover art painting by Shukran Shirzad.
Produced by Bairbre Flood.
Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Cover art painting by Shukran Shirzad.
Produced by Bairbre Flood.
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Update frequency:
every 25 days
Average audio length:
25 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
42 episodes
since Feb. 5, 2021
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Congratulations to everyone selected for the Wander 2025 open call competition! Thank you to everyone who sent in poems and I really hope next year to have this again and to offer this space.
So here are the poems selected:
Alienated by Mustafa Noah
How To Be by Sanjar Qiam
The Dilemma by Hiba Ra…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Hend Jouda is a writer from Gaza who’s published several poetry collections in Arabic: ‘Someone Always Leaves’, ‘No Sugar in the City’ and ‘Finger Survived’ and also, earlier this year, a collection in Arabic and French called ‘A Poet In Times Of War’. She's the winner of the Wander open call 2025 …
Youth project worker, poet, and visual artist, Fionnuala O'Connell has worked for many years to support young people through activities and capacity building.
She reads her poems, ‘I'm Sorry’, ‘Mother Tongue’ and 'Article 6’ (inspired by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) -
'You can't ea…
Poet and youth worker Dean Oke studied Community Development and Social Policy, and has a postgrad in youth work and his poetry reflects this interest in community issues and social justice.
He’s an emerging poet with a strong social conscience and an advocate for youth voices.
We talk about whet…
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan is a writer, performer, and arts consultant from India living in Ireland. Her work's been published by Dedalus Press, Lifeboat Press, Little Island, Poetry Ireland, Banshee, and The Stinging Fly amongst others.
She's been the recipient of multiple Arts Council Awards, one…
Amano is a multidisciplinary artist with roots in Ireland and Japan. Her practice includes sean-nós, vocal improvisation and folk storytelling. She’s working to de-colonise the Irish language through music, and writes beautiful, evocative and often politically charged poetry and spoken word.
She re…
In this special Poetry Day episode, Lavie Olupona reads her poems and we talk about being a young writer in Ireland today, setting up the new magazine Blaithi ('Little Flower' in Irish) and how her Nigerian and Traveller ethnicity influences her writing.
Wander, produced by Bairbre Flood, gives sp…
Palestinian-American poet, journalist, teacher and activist Noor Hindi's debut poetry collection Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow published by Haymarket Books, was an honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award.
She reads us several poems from this collection - ‘Palestine’, ‘Breaking New…
Welcome back to this new season of Wander. This year we’ve got a fantastic lineup - and for the first time including Traveller poets. For those outside of Ireland, Travellers are the indigenous people of Ireland. They are a distinct ethnic minority with their own culture, language and traditions. I…
Welcome back to this new season of Wander. This year we’ve got a fantastic lineup - and for the first time including Traveller poets. For those outside of Ireland, Travellers are the indigenous people of Ireland. They are a distinct ethnic minority with their own culture, language and traditions. I…
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