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Updated / Thursday, 25 Feb 2021 15:00 In the Poetry Programmeon Sunday 28th February, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Olivia OLeary is joined by poets Geraldine Mitchell and Damian Gorman. Geraldine Mitchell was born in Dublin and has been living in County Mayo since 2000. She is the recipient of a Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award and various literary bursaries and acted as Poetry Ambassador for Trócaire from 2012 to 2015. She joins Olivia to read from her new collection of poetry, Mute/Unmute, pu...

Updated / Thursday, 11 Feb 2021 09:30 Actress Paula McGlinchey features in this weeks special Poetry Programme Uncork the red wine, open the chocolates, and settle down for half an hour of love poetry when the Poetry Programme marks St Valentines Day on Sunday 14th February, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1. There will be old favourites and new writing, readings by actors and by poets themselves, some from the Poetry Programme’s own archive, and some you may not have heard before. Owen Roe Paula ...

Updated / Thursday, 4 Feb 2021 11:18 Coming up in the Poetry Programme on Sunday 7th February, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Moya Cannon publishes a lifetime of work, and we hear poems about the Mother and Baby Homes from Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Kimberly Campanello. Moya Cannon Moya Cannons first published collection, Oar, won the 1991 Brendan Behan Memorial Award. She has also won the OShaughnessy Award and was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2011. She has ...

Analysis: while pandemic-era poetry uncovers the vulnerabilities of humanity, it also reminds us that disasters do end Indian poet and essayist Arvind Krishna Mehrotra describes his experience of living in the pandemic era as follows. "My sense of mortality is keener than ever. In my garden, I look at an unfamiliar sapling and wonder if I would ever find out its name." Mehrotras keen sense of mortality and heightened attention to his surroundings also acts as the driving force behind for how ...

Updated / Thursday, 28 Jan 2021 11:00 In the Poetry Programme on Sunday 31st January, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Bebe Ashley is inspired by Harry Styles, Gerard Hanberry imagines a scene in a pub, and Seán Dennehy brings us a poem of celebration. Bebe Ashley was born in England and is currently a PhD candidate at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queens University Belfast. She tells Olivia about original poetry in sign language and reads from her debut collection, Gold Light Shining (...

Updated / Thursday, 21 Jan 2021 16:00 In the Poetry Programme on Sunday 24th January, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Kerry Hardie and John O’Donnell join presenter Olivia O’Leary to read new poems inspired by nature, loss and wonder. Kerry Hardie is based in Co. Kilkenny and has published eight collections of poetry and her latest collection, Where Now Begins (Bloodaxe Books), was published in 2020. She joins Olivia to read poems from the collection which celebrate nature and reflect on dea...

The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio One, Olivia OLeary chats to Lynda Tavakoli and Mícheál McCann about their inspirations. Listen to some preview clips below... Lynda Tavakoli divides her time between Northern Ireland and Oman, where her Persian husband works. Lynda Tavakoli She has been a winner of both poetry and short story prizes and has just published her first poetry collection, The Boiling Point for Jam (Arlen House). She talks with Olivia about her experiences in the Middle East an...

The Poetry Programme returns with Eamon Grennan & Irish PEN Updated / Thursday, 7 Jan 2021 07:00 Eamon Grennan features in The Poetry Programme (Pic: Rachel Kitzinger) The Poetry Programme returns for a new series on Sunday 10th January, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, when Eamon Grennan speaks with Olivia OLeary from his home in the USA about his new collection, and poets Kate Ennals and John ODonnell talk about the activities of Irish PEN. Eamon Grennan was born in Dublin and was for many years ...

Updated / Monday, 21 Dec 2020 08:00 We need your consent to load this YouTube contentWe use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi is a Lagos-born, Galway-raised and Dublin-based writer, editor, spoken-word performer and arts facilitator and a collaborator with Fighting Word for young people. Here she performs her own story ca...

Poetry Programme is for children this Sunday Updated / Thursday, 10 Dec 2020 13:00 Kate Newmann In the Poetry Programme this Sunday on RTÉ Radio 1, Kate Newmann is inspired by the Titanic, and we hear about a gorgeous book of poetry for children. Like so many Northern Ireland poets, award-winning poet Kate Newmann has been inspired by the story of the Titanic. We need your consent to load this SoundCloud contentWe use SoundCloud to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and ...