53. Victoria Kennefick in conversation with Lucy Collins (17 October 2024)

In her conversation with Lucy Collins, Victoria Kennefick discusses her most recent poetry collection Egg/Shell (2024). She talks about the changes in her creative practice occasioned by events in her life and how these have produced a collection that defies containment; how writing poetry has helped her to capture the immediacy of these difficult experiences and to process them over time. She discusses the continuing importance of representing the female body in diverse ways, the importance of creative freedom - the capacity to 'let yourself go' - and the usefulness of poetry.

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53. Victoria Kennefick in conversation with Lucy Collins (17 October 2024) is an episode from The Irish Itinerary Podcast by European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies.

This episode is 44:54 long.

This episode was published on Oct 17, 2024.

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