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The Poetry Programme previews Poetry Day Ireland 2021 Updated / Friday, 23 Apr 2021 07:00 Dara McAnulty reads Seamus Heaney on this week's Poetry Programme In the Poetry Programme on Sunday 25th April, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1 - a new collection from James Harpur, and Niamh O'Donnell, Director of Poetry Ireland, previews Poetry Day Ireland 2021. James Harpur is a multi-award-winning poet. His 2018 collection, The White Silhouette, was an Irish Times Book of the Year, while his 2012 collection, Angels and Harvesters, was a PBS Recommendation and shortlisted for the 2013 Irish Times Award...

Updated / Thursday, 15 Apr 2021 10:24 Coming up in the Poetry Programme on Sunday 18th April, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, a new collection from Martina Evans, and readings by Kate Ennals and Kevin O'Farrell. Martina Evans is an Irish poet and novelist and the author of eleven books of prose and poetry. Her 2018 poetry collection, Now We Can Talk Openly About Men, was an Observer, Irish Times and TLS Book of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Mark Pigott Poetry Prize. Martina joins Olivia O'Leary to talk about her new ...

As chosen by the RTÉ Poetry Programme, our Poem of the Week is Begin by Brendan Kennelly, as read on Sunday with Miriam - listen to Brendan read it here.

Updated / Thursday, 11 Mar 2021 14:28 Christine Roseeta Walker features in the latest edition of The Poetry Programme In the Poetry Programme on Sunday 14th March, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, John McAuliffe talks about a new anthology introducing work by two dozen poets. John McAuliffe has published a number of collections of poetry, of which the most recent is The Kabul Olympics. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing and Associate Publisher at Carcanet. We need your consent to load this SoundCloud contentWe use SoundCloud to manage extra content...

Updated / Friday, 5 Mar 2021 09:00 In the Poetry Programme on Sunday 7th March, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Olivia O'Leary is joined by poets Patrick Cotter and Jessamine O’Connor. Jessamine O'Connor is a Dublin-born writer living on the Sligo/Roscommon border in the west of Ireland. She was the winner of the inaugural Comórtas Filíochta Chultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich 2020 (with poems translated by Oilí Diarmuid); Poetry Ireland/Butlers Cafe competition 2017, and previously the iYeats and Francis Ledwidge awards in 2011. She has published a number of chapbooks and joins Olivia O’Leary...