Wander

In this special Poetry Day episode of Wander, Lavie reads her poems and we talk about being a young writer in Ireland today and how her Nigerian and Traveller ethnicity influences her writing.

Lavie Olupona was an Edna O’Brien Young Writer at the Museum of Literature Ireland, has performed at Misleór and Many Tongues of Cork and recently set up a new literary magazine, ‘Blaithi’.

This episode will be available online at bairbreflood.org and across all podcast platforms from 1pm on Thursday May 1st, 

Wander, produced by Bairbre Flood, gives space to poets with lived experience of exile and to Traveller/Roma poets and is funded by the Arts Council.