This bonus episode is available now for supporters over on our Patreon page. Belfast poet Gail McConnell reads her poem ‘Type Face’ in an exclusive recording for The Irish Passport Patreon supporters. As Gail explains in her introduction to the work, this poem discusses her experience of reading a report from Northern Ireland’s Historical Enquiries Team about the death of her father. A prison guard in the Maze, he was shot as he said goodbye to Gail and her mother on his way to work one morning. Settle in and let Gail’s reading bring you back in time to her Belfast bedroom as she searches for answers.
‘Type Face’ is published in Blackbox Manifold, online here. McConnell featured in our latest episode ‘Poetry and Pain’, in which she read her poem, ‘Start Out’.
Listen here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28074634
