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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 O'Leary 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, published by Arlen House, and reads a selection of poems, including some inspired by history and by r...

Updated / Thursday, 11 Feb 2021 09:30 Actress Paula McGlinchey features in this week's 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 Valentine's 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 McGlinchey reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s How Do I Love Thee? A recording of Seamus Heane...

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 Cannon's first published collection, Oar, won the 1991 Brendan Behan Memorial Award. She has also won the O'Shaughnessy Award and was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2011. She has been editor of Poetry Ireland Review and is a member of Aosdána. She joins presenter Olivia O’...

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." Mehrotra's keen sense of mortality and heightened attention to his surroundings also acts as the driving force behind for how many poets are addressing these times. Recent writing from Irish poets has especially focused on t...

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 Queen's University Belfast. She tells Olivia about original poetry in sign language and reads from her debut collection, Gold Light Shining (Banshee Press), which includes poems inspired by Harry Styles. We need your consent to load this So...