Kathleen McCracken


​Interviews & Recordings

Reading of 'The Gauntlet Road' and 'You Have To Love Them Enough To Let Them Be Wild', The John Hewitt Poetry Archive,  November 23, 2020

Reading of 'Humpbacks, Howe Sound' and 'The Pineries, Hillsborough Castle', Poetry In Motion National Poetry Day Reading,  October 1, 2020 [from 53.09]
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Poetry In Motion, National Poetry Day 2020

Reading of 'The Starbog Road', Poetry Showcase, Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, August 18, 2020 [from 1.29]

Cultivating Voices Open Mic Reading, 3 May 2020


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Interview with Gordon Hewitt
‘Kathleen McCracken, Winner of the Seamus Heaney Award, Speaks to The Monthly'
The Monthly - Community Arts Partnership/Arts Resource Centre
​April 9, 2019 

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Poetry Day Ireland 2017 Mix Tape

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Listen to The Finger Bird
​The Finger Bird
 
 
When our daughter was five
my father invented the finger bird.
Creature of one too many
birthdays, Christmases
New Years spent apart
it flew up into his hands
with the gusto of a new species
sprung from joyful Borneos.
Just outside her sight lines
he’d play it, meaty thumb and index
tip to tip tap tapping
a silent lingo she caught the drift of
instinctively and ran with it
feathers streaming 
through ecstasies of giggles
to this place now where aged sixteen
fingers flashing she talks to him
in sign languages
that private, long distance connection
irreversibly open.

Northern Visions TV Interview
ith Kathryn White, July 3, 2015

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Colin Dardis Interviews Kathleen McCracken Lagan Press Online, March 4, 2015

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