Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Lorna Goodison

“Spending time in hell is not my idea of something that one should do,” says poet Lorna Goodison, yet she immersed herself there for years to create her extraordinary modern Jamaican translation of Dante’s Inferno . We are thrilled to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Lorna, recorded as an online component of the Greenbelt Festival in England in 2025. She reads from her work, and together, they discuss Lorna’s inspiration for her underworld undertaking, how she found her Virgil, and why she calls The Inferno “bitter, necessary medicine for now.” We invite you to

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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Lorna Goodison is an episode from Poetry Unbound by On Being Studios.

This episode is 00:54:11 long.

This episode was published on Dec 12, 2025.

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