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Pádraig Ó Tuama (b. 1975) is from Ireland. The host of On Being's Poetry Unbound podcast, and editor of the anthologies of the same name, he splits his time between Belfast and New York City. His writing includes both poetry and prose, and his work been featured on national radio stations in Ireland, Britain, the US, Australia and New Zealand. Profiled by The New Yorker, his poetry has appeared in many magazines, including Poetry Ireland, the Kenyon Review, and The Harvard Review. Kitchen Hymns is his fourth collection of poems.
"""Poetry, for him, is the language the heart speaks not when it reaches for some externalized divinity but when it seeks to understand itself."" --Eliza Griswold, New Yorker""Being Here teaches us not just where poetry, prayer, and the history of literature intersect. It shows us how to get to that intersection, how to dwell in a place of ambiguities with the certainty of our souls, and how to use these ambiguities to thrive daily."" --Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Tradition""I wonder, here, whether I might quote the words of a Cork man, the poet and theologian P�draig � Tuama, whom I met when my wife and I visited the Corrymeela Community. . . . His poem, 'Shaking Hands' makes reaching out an imperative of leadership."" --King Charles III""P�draig's prayers balance precision, spaciousness, heart, humor, doubt, and devotion in a way that feels at once impossible and also desperately needed. I am in love with his unsentimental orientation to the holy."" --Nadia Bolz-Weber, author of Accidental Saints""Ridiculously good. . . . [Poetry Unbound] covers a wide range of topics, forms, and writing styles, making it a fantastic read for poetry-lovers and reluctant-poetry-readers alike. . . . Maybe the best part of the book is � Tuama's unparalleled ability to understand, interpret, and write about poetry."" --Kateri Kramer, The Rumpus"
