Peter Sirr Oblivion

RTÉ Drama On One

Oblivion By Peter Sirr There’s a view that we survive vicariously in the books we write and that therefore death is not ultimately lethal. This was a pagan argument and it’s still going strong in post-modernity because its consolation is both timely and timeless. Poet and linguist Peter Sirr’s ‘document drama’ for radio is a poignant study of work that’s been lost forever in the whirlpool of the underworld - and of the glittering recent retrieval of an entire poem (almost) by the lesbian poet Sappho nearly two thousand five hundred years after its apparent disappearance from the classical canon. Featuring Des Cave, Emmet Bergin, Deirdre Donnelly, Kevin Flood, Paul Tylak, Hope Brown, Karl O'Neill, Lise-Anne McLaughlin and Olwen Fouéré. Producer: Aidan Mathews RTÉ Drama On One, 1 June 2012 Irish poet Peter Sirr considers the eventual mortality of human writing in this dark lyrical drama about the lost classics of Ancient Greece. A senior Irish poet considers the eventual mortality of most (but not all) human writing in a dark lyrical drama about the lost classics of Ancient Greece. There is a view that we survive vicariously in the books we write and that therefore death is not ultimately lethal. This was a pagan argument and it is still going strong in post-modernity because its consolation is both timely and timeless. Poet and linguist Peter Sirr’s ‘document drama’ for radio is a poignant study of work that has been lost forever in the whirlpool of the underworld – and of the glittering recent retrieval of an entire poem (almost) by the lesbian poet Sappho nearly 2,500 years after its apparent disappearance from the classical canon

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.