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.
James Harpur (Pic: Dino Ignani)
His new collection,
The Examined Life, published by Two Rivers Press, has already won the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. The poems in the collection vividly recall his time at boarding school in Surrey in the 1970s.