The Body Electric; Episode 3

<p>In episode three, Tara Bergin continues her meditation on the practice of ekphrastic writing - interrogating connections with the human condition. Claire-Louise Bennett and Alice Lyons present new poems inspired by artworks in the Niland Collection, both of which explore the tension between artist and sitter.&nbsp;</p> <p>Alice reads <em>Battenberg Hat,</em> a poem inspired by John Butler Yeats’ <em>Portrait of Elizabeth Pollexfen</em> – which depicts the artist’s mother-in-law. The podcast closes with Claire-Louise Bennett reading <em>Lobe</em> - a work inspired by the portrait sketches of George William Russell, otherwise known as Ӕ.</p>