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 collection,
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 O Leary from his home in the USA about his new collection, and poets Kate Ennals and John O Donnell talk about the activities of Irish PEN.
Eamon Grennan was born in Dublin and was for many years Professor of English at Vassar College in New York State. Since 1983 he has published eleven collections with The Gallery Press and he speaks with Olivia O Leary from his home in the USA about his new collection,