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Selected by David Wheatley
In the fourth installment of The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, curated by 2008 Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize-winner David Wheatley, five Irish poets – the experimental Trevor Joyce, religious celebrant Aidan Mathews, elegist Peter McDonald, modern poet Ailbhe Darcy, and Irish speaker Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh – receive their official publication debut among North American readers.
In the anthology’s preface, Wheatley notes that despite his chosen poets’ regional variance and differences in age (37 years separate Joyce, the eldest poet in the collection, and Ní Ghearbhuigh, the youngest), his selection takes care to evade “questions of generational groups and territoriality to explore a series of related but distinct issues” in each of the five bodies of work. In this he is successful: the anthology is a latticework of themes, from troubled love, as seen in Joyce’s defiant “I will not die for you” and the raw honesty of Ní Ghearbhuigh
Updated / Tuesday, 26 Jan 2021
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Kevin Reynolds, producer of Drama on One on RTÉ Radio 1, pays tribute to one of the giants of Irish radio drama, as he bids adieu after four decades on the airwaves. Listen to Drama On One s tribute to Aidan Matthews above.
Drama on One celebrates our colleague - poet, playwright, essayist, editor and producer Aidan Mathews who retired from RTÉ on Saturday, January 16th, after thirty-seven years of service.
Aidan began working in the Radio Centre in 1984, writing and producing drama and religious programmes.
In normal circumstances, like other good folk retiring from whatever occupation, we would have raised a glass and perhaps enjoyed a slice of cake with our friend.