Glad you listened, Sharkey! Davey is lovely--he has a liquid-love heart.
I'll tell you a little story about the podcast, something that happened during the recording. Remember when Davey reads his poem 'Fathers and Sons'? (Synchronicity with Matt's current poem). Well, the moment after he finished reading, Andy, the interviewer, began to shake and cry so utterly that the producer stopped recording and we burst through the door into the studio to apply emergency cuddles and emergency poems and emergency tissues. It was raw and beautiful, what happened in those few minutes. In time, she said she could go on, so we left them to it again. You can hear her say later that she's going through exactly the same thing right now with her own parents.
It was a true life demonstration of the value of poetry, of everything Davey talks about in the podcast. The feeling in the room was akin to holiness.
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