Reading playlist Bad Words
Every word they told you not to say, still warm in your mouth.
Artists and music for this book
Lisa O'Neill
Lankum
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Why this music
Because the poems hold tension beneath still surfaces — controlled, precise, quietly furious — the music stays sparse and close, favouring drone, fingerpicked strings, and modal Irish textures. It darkens where the body is most present and opens slightly where language finds air. Nothing overwhelms the page.