Updated / Friday, 5 Mar 2021
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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 to talk about her first full collection,
Silver Spoon, published by Salmon Poetry.