Episode 21. READING POETRY “Ithaca” by Theo Dorgan #NaPodPoMo

From Cork With Love - by Paul O'Mahony · Nov 24, 2025 · 14m

You hear Theo Dorgan read his poem “Ithaca” dedicated to Leonard Cohen (with whom he shares a birthday). Paul O’Mahony also reads the poem twice. #NaPodPoMo

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Ithaca

for Leonard Cohen

When you set out from Ithaca again,

let it be autumn, early, the plane leaves falling as you go,

for spring would shake you with its quickening,

its whispers of youth.

You will have earned the road down to the harbour,

duty discharged, your toll of labour paid,

the house four-square, your son in the full of fatherhood,

his mother, your long-beloved, gone to the shades.

Walk by the doorways, do not look left…