Podcast appearances and mentions of sarah davis goff

Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland's urban gothic writing.Vampires, ghosts, and the undead have an enduring cultural legacy. These uncanny figures inform, or perhaps infect, depictions of the body, maternity, and sexuality in contemporary Irish women's writing. This panel discussion, recorded live in MoLI's Old Physics Theatre, led by Dr Katie Mishler and featuring Sarah Davis-Goff, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and Sophie White, uncovers how the gothic monstrosities of Bram Stoker and others continue to be a powerful metaphor for social anxieties, marginalisation, and historical erasure. Sarah Davis-Goff is co-founder of Tramp Press, which publishes the Recovered Voices series, re-publishing a lost Irish classic once a year, with a bent towards speculative fiction. In 2019 her own novel Last Ones Left Alive was published in the UK and Ireland by Tinder Press, and in the US by Flatiron. Last Ones Left Alive was nominated for the Edinburgh First Book Prize and the Not-The-Booker Prize, shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kate O'Brien Award, and won the Chrysalis Award. She lives in Dublin. Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a poet and essayist. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat was awarded the James Tait Back Prize for Biography, and described as “powerful” (New York Times), and “captivatingly original” (The Guardian). Doireann is also author of six critically-acclaimed books of poetry, each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity.  Sophie White is a writer and podcaster from Dublin. Her first book, a memoir-cookbook work, Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown (Gill 2016) was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Her second book and first novel, the bestselling, Filter This (Hachette, 2019) was also shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Her third book, Unfiltered (Hachette, 2020) was described by Marian Keyes as ‘such fun – gas, clever stuff'. Her fourth book and second work of non-fiction is the bestselling essay collection, Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows published by Tramp Press in 2021.Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin's urban history and the development of Ireland's literary gothic tradition. The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler's postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.Producers Ian Dunphy & Benedict Schlepper-ConnollySound Ian DunphyMusic CAPE

Keywords is brand new series presented by Zoë Comyns which brings together stories, sounds and words that you have recorded yourself – each week guided by a keyword. We have commissioned work by established and emerging writers, sound artists and poets. Over the series you'll hear voice memos and calls, music, essays and fiction. For the first episode, seeing as it's on all our minds, we set Distance as the keyword. We received so many submissions for this word and we have included a range of interpretations in the programme. Sarah Keating is a radio producer and journalist based in Singapore. She sent us a short recording from her balcony in Singapore, where she now lives. As thunder rumbles in the background and she talks about the present moment and on the importance of listening to the world around us. Sarah Davis-Goff is one of the founders of Tramp Press and in her debut novel Last Ones Left Alive Ireland is a post virus landscape filled with walking Zombie-like corpses. Her new piece for Keywords Between Us captures other dystopias and fears. Sarah recorded her piece herself on her phone and sent it on to us. We are now so used to hearing voices on messages, online videos with slightly distorted DIY recordings, that I think this adds to the pieces to hear slight variations in the audio. I have taken the recordings and weaved sound and music around certain pieces to bring them together for listeners. Nick McGinley's essay looks at different kinds of distances in his piece called Hikikomori. It's a Japanese word meaning confinement and ‘social withdrawal' and this is something, as Nick explores in his piece, that can be imposed by the State or it can come from within ourselves. Aodán McCardle is a performer, writer and artist and he's the author of two books, Shuddered and ISing (from VEER). For Keywords Aodán has written a prose poem, a stream of consciousness beginning with, he says, ‘the dilemma of the unsaid, its return and being revisited in language and then becoming a specific memory'. Marcella O'Sullivan is a songwriter and a writer living in Melbourne. She's also a mother and in a lyrical piece written for Keywords she describes a hot summer night as her son lies beside her. She notes the changes as he grows and develops. Writer Sinéad Gleeson and music producer Stephen Shannon have collaborated on an audio essay for this first episode of Keywords. It's fair to say that the quality of this recording is very high as Stephen Shannon is a very well respected music producer. Together their collaboration yearns for the sounds and sights of the forest, the sea and imagines the loneliness of Fastnet Rock and Lighthouse its ‘own stone of self-isolation'. Sinéad's collection of essays is called Constellations and Stephen Shannon creates under the name of Mount Alaska (with Cillian McDonnell). K Quintet are husband and wife duo David Duffy (Composer/Double Bassist) and Ksenia Parkhatskaya (Dancer and singer) have composed a song called ‘Standing in the Distance'. They tell us it's a simple love song in many ways, but also inspired by the current crisis ‘while we all wait apart from each other, and ‘call through the distance, how are you?' K Quintet's first album “something else” is a straight ahead jazz record harking back to the 50's and 60's, while they are currently recording their second album ‘Colours' which will be released in late 2020. Keywords is presented and produced by Zoë Comyns and is a New Normal Culture production for RTÉ Radio 1 Extra. Assistant Producer: Regan Hutchins The series is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound and Vision 3 Scheme and by RTÉ

The 2010s will go down as an extremely significant decade in Irish literature in both of our official languages. The bailout and its aftermath affected the country heterogeneously and the literary scream in response to this uneven scourging was delivered in uneven voices: younger, more rural, less aspirational, more accented. While the Celtic Tiger wrote about the recent past with the smugness of a returned backpacker dropping off a year’s worth of laundry, these new voices had a distinctly different sense of the past, the present and the future… and everything in between. It was in this environment that Lisa Coen and her business partner Sarah Davis-Goff set up Tramp Press, an independent publisher which has released two Books of the Year in the past three years, as well as clocking up a dizzying array of other prizes.  In today’s episode, Lisa talks to Darach about the circumstances that gave birth to this publishing phenomenon and the mission that drives them forward. She explains the significance of the company’s name and of tramps in Irish literature. She schools Darach’s big jackeen head on the secrets of Shoe Corner and the nearest ATM and tells of the urgent relevance of the outsider’s stories. And yes, they talk about Irish too! You can find out more about Tramp Press at https://www.tramppress.com  --- Get Kirsten Shiel art prints here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/kirstenshiel/  Support for this episode comes from Foras na Gaeilge - https://www.forasnagaeilge.ie/ --- Contact the show: twitter - @motherfocloir and @theirishfor email - motherfocloir@headstuff.org

Podcast of discussion at Theorizing Zombiism conference with writers Scott Kenemore and Sarah Davis-Goff.

Podcast of discussion at Theorizing Zombiism conference with writers Scott Kenemore and Sarah Davis-Goff.

Antony Farrell, of Lilliput Press, which this year celebrates its 35th anniversary, discusses his career in publishing, the history of the press and the “genius” authors with whom he has worked over the years, including Hubert Butler – “he was a secular saint to me” – Tim Robinson, John Moriarty and Desmond Hogan. He talks about his background – his father was “a Castle Catholic”, his mother an Ulster Protestant and he was educated at Harrow public school, where he boxed (“I was more athlete than aesthete”) and was called “a bog rat”, inspiring him to embrace his roots, studying Irish history at Trinity College Dublin. We also touch on Brexit and Boris Johnson, including James Shapiro's witty advice to the British prime minister on how to approach his book on Shakespeare. Farrell also discusses the pros and cons of being published by an Irish publisher rather than a British one, the importance of alliances and building long-term relationships with authors, the different challenges of publishing fiction and nonfiction, and the people he has worked with over the years, many of whom have gone on to establish high-profile careers in publishing, the arts and as authors. Describing it as “a kind of finishing school”, he speaks of the 300 or so interns he has employed over the years, including Aideen Howard, Brendan Barrington, Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen, Tom Morris, Elske Rahill and Nicole Flattery. He offers a sneak preview of major titles coming up: including – a podcast exclusive! – Stephen Rea's memoir, A Life in Parts; A Letter marked Personal, a posthumous novel by JP Donleavy; and The Last Footman by Gillies Macbain, an Anglo-Irish memoir for which he has high hopes.

Welcome to the Books That Made Me Podcast! In the inaugural episode, we chat to Lisa Coen & Sarah Davis Goff from Tramp Press about the most important and loved books in their lives. Highlights include a shared love of Nigel Slater, Anne Enright, the importance of horror in adolescence and the brilliance of Irish theatre. Books mentioned in this episode are:Spot/Bran books - Eric HillStone soup - folklore, unknown Peter Rabbit series - Beatrix PotterMalory Towers - Enid BlytonThe Secret Seven - Enid Blyton Assorted works - Edgar Allen Poe It - Stephen King Sula - Toni Morrison Persuasion - Jane Austen Pet Sematary - Stephen KingMaking Babies - Anne Enright The Green Road - Anne EnrightThe Lives of Eliza Lynch - Anne Enright Firestarter - Stephen King War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The Outsider - Stephen King Philadelphia, Here I Come - Brian Friel A Whistle In The Dark - Tom MurphyThe Gigli Concert - Tom Murphy The Ancillary Trilogy - Ann LeckieSolar Bones - Mike McCormack Minor Monuments - Ian MaleneyThe Stand - Stephen King Running Like A Girl - Alexandra HeminsleyIn White Ink - Elskie RahillAn Unravelling - Elskie Rahill The Firestarters - Jan CarsonShow Them A Good Time - Nicole Flattery

April's Irish Times Books Podcast features interviews with Sinéad Gleeson about her acclaimed collection of personal essays, Constellations, and Sarah Davis-Goff, co-founder of Tramp Press, about her own first novel, Last Ones Left Alive, a dystopian novel set in the west of Ireland in the near future.

Sarah Davis-Goff is an author and co-founder of Independent publisher Tramp Press (

Inside Books is a fortnightly programme presented by Breda Brown. This episode features Sarah Davis Goff and Lisa Cohen from Tramp Press

In our latest podcast, Joanna Walsh discusses the Irish Writing Boom with Sarah Davis-Goff of Tramp Press; Susan Tomaselli, editor of Gorse Journal; and Amy Herron of the Irish Writers' Centre. They touch on the culture and history of Ireland’s literary journals; short story culture; the fight against marketing departments and the work of fostering literary innovation.