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For those who needed to hear it today
Hozier reading list
(let me just dig up this skeleton from my closet, since I made a promise to update at some point and the original is still making the rounds)
(ETA; Well, look at that, tumblr fucked up the formatting, who would've thunk. Let me see if it's fixable or if screenshots are better.)
(Edit 2; In a surprise to absolutely nobody, actually editing text in tumblrs text editor is virtually impossible, that is why we call it a hellsite. Anyway, it is what it is. I tried.)
Literary references in Hozier music
Alighieri, Dante; Inferno
The story of Francesca da Rimini as told in canto V inspired the song Francesca.
The album Unreal Unearth is arranged as a journey through nine circles of hell as they are described in the Inferno part of the Divine Comedy.
The title of the song Through Me (the flood) is a reference to the first lines of canto III.
Hozier read the translation by Robert Pinsky (https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22285692/)
Beckett, Samuel; Endgame
The song Wasteland, Baby! Takes inspiration from this play. (5 september 2023) (https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/hozier/cover-story-hozier-unreal-unearth)
O'Brien, Flann; the Third Policeman
The character of de Selby in the Third Policeman inspired the songs de Selby part 1 and 2.
Heaney, Seamus; At the Wellhead
The song To Noise Making (Sing) contains a8n audio fragment of Heaney reading this poem.
Heaney, Seamus; The Cure at Troy
The line "Or honey hope even on this side of the grave again?" In the song "To Noise Making (Sing) " is inspired by the line "History says, Don't hope / On this side of the grave." in this poem.
Joyce, James; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The line "Shaking the wings of their terrible youths" in the song Angel of Small Death & the Codeine Scene is derived from a line in this book. As mentioned in the interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music (august 28, 2023) (https://youtu.be/y5JpgNIkOz4?si=Yg1GVewfZlHkdVm1)
Also mentioned as general inspiration in an interview with the Daily Meal (october 28, 2014) (https://www.thedailymeal.com/irish-born-musician-hozier-slithered-here-eden-bring-us-his-gospel)
Mack, dr. Katie
Astrophysicist dr. Katie Mack is mentioned by name in the song No Plan. A quote from the song is used in her book The End of Everything (Astrophysically speaking)
Neruda, Pablo, Sonnet XVII
The songs de Selby part 1 and part 2 take some inspiration from this poem. (Mentioned when introducing the song during a concert)
Ovid, Metamorphoses
The story of Icarus is mentioned in the song Sunlight and inspired the song I, Carrion (Icarian).
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is mentioned in the song Talk.
Plato; The Allegory of the Cave
The phrase "Adding shadows to the walls of the cave" in the song Sedated refers to this story.
Swift, Jonathan; A Modest Proposal
Inspiration for the song Eat Your Young.
Wilde, Oscar; Chanson
The line "a rope in hand for your other man to hang from a tree" in the song From Eden" is inspired by the line "And a hempen rope for your own love / To hang upon a tree." in this poem.
Yeats, W. B.; The Second Coming
The line "To Bethlehem it slouched" in the song NFWMB is almost directly copied from this poem.
Yeats, W. B.; Leda and the Swan
Inspiration for the song Swan Upon Leda
Other books recommended/mentioned by Hozier
Amis, Martin; The Zone of Interest
Recommended by Hozier in an 'Ask Me Anything' before the release of the album Wasteland, baby! on reddit in 2019
Beckett, Samuel; Not I
Hozier joked the album Unreal Unearth would contain four tracks, two of them being recordings of him reading this play with his mouth full of marshmallows.
The cover art of Unreal Unearth is said to reference this play.
Bukowski, Charles
Mentioned as a teenage favorite (https://youtu.be/e5pFwDvcIGA)
Ó Cadhain, Máirtín; Graveyard Clay (Cré Na Cille)
Mentioned as his current read in an instagram Q&A on December 1, 2021
Eliot, T. S.
https://www.thedailymeal.com/irish-born-musician-hozier-slithered-here-eden-bring-us-his-gospel
Heaney, Marie; Over Nine Waves, a Book of Irish Legends
(Source? Mentioned on social media?)
Heaney, Seamus
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/hozier-why-seamus-heaney-s-last-words-mean-so-much-to-me-1.3797926
Herbert, Frank; Dune
Mentioned as a current read/audiobook on How Long Gone podcast episode 614. March 6, 2024
Joyce, James; Ulysses
https://youtu.be/s0Ux72N4K10
Kierkegaard, Søren; The Sickness unto Death
(Source?)
Orwell, George; 1984
https://www.thedailymeal.com/irish-born-musician-hozier-slithered-here-eden-bring-us-his-gospel/
Rubin, Rick; The Creative Act
Mentioned as his current read in an interview for WNYC Radio, 17 March 2023
https://youtu.be/Cd2uxpD9Hc8?si=cJ8bKrfFeXk_WS2F
Salinger, J. D.; Catcher in the Rye
https://www.thedailymeal.com/irish-born-musician-hozier-slithered-here-eden-bring-us-his-gospel/
Wilde, Oscar
https://youtu.be/s0Ux72N4K10
https://www.thedailymeal.com/irish-born-musician-hozier-slithered-here-eden-bring-us-his-gospel/
Williams, Niall; This Is Happiness
Mentioned as his current read at a fan meet & greet (Bristol, 6 August 2023)
Yeats, W. B.
https://www.thedailymeal.com/irish-born-musician-hozier-slithered-here-eden-bring-us-his-gospel/
Poetry/stories read by Hozier in livestreams/videos (and the books he read them from)
3 July 2020 Instagram live
Seamus Heaney; Postscript (the Spirit Level)
Seamus Heaney; A Kite for Michael and Christopher (Station Island)
W. B. Yeats; No Second Troy (W. B. Yeats Poems selected by Seamus Heaney)
W. B. Yeats; To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing (W. B. Yeats Poems selected by Seamus Heaney)
Ovid, Daedalus and Icarus (Metamorphoses, translated by David Raeburn, penguin classics)
Sinéad Morrissey; & Forgive Us Our Trespasses (Being Human edited by Neil Astley)
Also mentioned; Staying Alive edited by Neil Astley
Seen on the table; Fear Not by Stephen James Smith
10 July 2020 Instagram live
Seamus Heaney; HÖFN (District & Circle)
Seamus Heaney; District & Circle (District & Circle)
Stephen Dunn; Sadness
Stephen Dunn; Sweetness
Ovid; Orpheus and Eurydice (Metamorphoses, translated by David Raeburn, penguin classics)
T. S. Eliot; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Collected Poems 1909-1962)
Brendan Kennelly; Begin
17 July 2020 Instagram live
Ezra Pound; And the Days Are Not Full Enough
Wilfred Owen; Futility
James Joyce; A Flower Given to My Daughter
Pablo Neruda; Keeping Quiet
Langston Hughes; I, Too
Imtiaz Dharker; They'll Say She Must Be From Another Country
W. B. Yeats; When You Are Old
Stephen James Smith; On the Bus (Fear Not)
Seamus Heaney; Saint Kevin and the Blackbird
Seamus Heaney; Sweeney Praises the Trees (Sweeney Astray)
Maya Angelou; Touched by an Angel
Garrison Keillor; Supper
Pablo Neruda; Sonnet XCIV (If I Die) (100 Love Sonnets, translated by Stephen Tapscott)
T. S. Eliot; Ash Wednesday (Collected Poems 1909-1962)
Ovid, the Four Ages (Metamorphoses, translated by David Raeburn, penguin classics)
Also mentioned; Ireland, My Ireland by Stephen James Smith
25 July 2020 Instagram live
Anne Stevenson; The Spirit is Too Blunt an Instrument
Katie Mack; The Slow Fade to Black (the End of Everything, Astrophysically Speaking)
Pablo Neruda; Sonnet XVII (One Hundred Love Sonnets, translated by Mark Eisner)
Kahlil Gibran; On Love (the Prophet)
Sharon Olds; True Love
Rita Ann Higgins; The Did-You-Come-Yets of the Western World
7 August 2020 Instagram live
James Joyce; Araby (Dubliners)
Also mentioned A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
17 march 2021 Tiktok live
Brendan Kennelly; Begin
Derek Mahon; Everything is Going to Be Alright
Sinéad Morrissey; & Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Faisal Mohyuddin; Prayer (The Displaced Children of Displaced Children)
Pádraig Ó Tuama; How to Be Alone
Stephen James Smith; Dublin, You Are
Paula Meehan; Seed
Various reads
Seamus Heaney; At the Wellhead
https://youtu.be/uIBpT_rqUfA
Patrick Kavanagh; Peace
https://youtu.be/Iz1OXOFua4w
W. B. Yeats; He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
https://youtu.be/e5pFwDvcIGA
W. B. Yeats; A Coat
https://youtu.be/e5pFwDvcIGA
Seamus Heaney; Miracle
https://x.com/seamusheaneyest/status/1253626839316279296?s=20
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they have flowers for you!
The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924
ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat
its beyond insane that israel has bombed rafah over sixty times in the last 48 hours since the icj ruling. the videos of the tent refugee camp in rafah today are making me so sad/angry. beyond my ability to say anything that isnt already known
I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping
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