Tracy Chapman first performed "Give Me One Reason" on Saturday Night Live in 1989. Six years before its official release

She shared her words with Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, and in doing so brought a global audience closer to Scottish culture. Karine Polwart reflects on what it meant to hear her song “Travel These Ways” echo beneath the backdrop of Edinburgh Castle. Read her full reflection:

Today @adroitjournal: Travis Helms reviews @duanalla's KITCHEN HYMNS (@CopperCanyonPrs) and Spencer Reece's ACTS (@fsgbooks). https://t.co/8o7qfW56FW

Listowel Writers Week has begun! 🎉 Poetry Ireland are proud to support three events at this brilliant Literary Festival: Readings: Pádraig Ó Tuama & John O’Donnell Tonight (Thurs) at 7:30pm | Plaza Hall, Listowel Book here: https://t.co/Odjil2ZXeB @ListowelWW @WritersWeek

Dublin friends — come join on Tuesday!

✨ We're delighted to announce Margaret Atwood as the 2025 Lifetime Recognition Award recipient. ✨ ✨ Margaret Atwood will be in conversation with Carolyn Forché at the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings in Toronto on June 4. Get your tickets today! https://t.co/5KV0KHGHXe ✨

Join Pádraig Ó Tuama for an unforgettable performance from his new collection Kitchen Hymns 📖✨, where he draws from world religions, mythologies, and storytelling traditions to explore human connection and faith in modern life. These are the songs sung at home, the

"In some ways, I think I still do have a vocation, and I’m doing it. In the way I understand what priesthood means — the call to sacrament and incarnation and narrative — I think I am still doing it.” @duanalla talks to Simon Walsh https://t.co/X5ZnpWXQyw

Happy to see my review of “Kitchen Hymns,” the latest poetry collection from @duanalla is up on Jesuit Media Lab!

A God We Understand Is Not Actually God: @MG_Mangan0 reviews @duanalla's latest poetry collection, “Kitchen Hymns.” https://t.co/u1TZvapXna

"In some ways, I think I still do have a vocation, and I’m doing it. In the way I understand what priesthood means — the call to sacrament and incarnation and narrative — I think I am still doing it.” @duanalla talks to Simon Walsh https://t.co/bCKivwTgKx

it's hard to imagine that i would have continued writing without @duanalla encouraging my early efforts. means the world to have him in my corner.

With Kate Millar, @duanalla discusses his new poetry collection “Kitchen Hymns,” which confronts the effects of sectarianism and colonialism on spirituality and languages of belief; the transcendence of eroticism; bereavements during COVID; and more. https://t.co/BmzfCrbpu3

In his new poetry collection “Kitchen Hymns,” @duanalla grapples with the “burden of belief,” and how the fixed language assigned to belief in God often renders people invisible. https://t.co/il60tiq3LF

I'm loving the quiet, brave honesty, tenderness and humour of @duanalla's collection. A collection for those of us hanging on to the no one and refusing to quite let go of the no thing. "I have lost God. God/is the only language that I speak."

Great to chat about poetry on our new podcast - Episode 3 | The Dean in Conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama

“She spoke of how she’d never been able to trace her beloved teacher, so the poem acts as a voice of praise to all teachers deserving of such adulation.” @duanalla on Patricia Smith. https://t.co/rxV5sxJtTw

Check out "44 Poems on Being with Each Other - An Evening with Pádraig Ó Tuama" https://t.co/NITR1CLZw3 @eventbritehelp @duanalla with @DeanSouthwark @Southwarkcathed next Thursday (6th February) #poetry

PREORDER (28.02.2025): Opening Line is a £3.99 poetry anthology built on the principle that access to the arts should not be a privilege. This anthology dismantles economic barriers that too often limit audiences from engaging with contemporary poetry. https://t.co/nJxARoIqZ1

“I asked the grasses if they believed / but they said believe is a poor verb. / I asked the sun but it had eclipsed.” Read “In the Name of the Bee,” a poem by @duanalla from the collection Kitchen Hymns. https://t.co/x8b2ocRzHw