Outdoor poetry reading and workshop at the Japanese Gardens leinsterleader.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from leinsterleader.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated / Thursday, 29 Apr 2021
07:00
In the
Poetry Programme on Sunday 2nd May, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Olivia O’Leary’s guest is Paula Meehan, former Ireland Professor of Poetry, who has published seven collections and won numerous awards.
Paula’s selected poems,
As If By Magic (Dedalus Press), is the Book Club choice for the 2021 Bealtaine Festival, the first time a book of poetry has been chosen.
She talks about creativity, childhood memories, and shares warm memories of her family and the community where she grew up in inner city Dublin. She reads a selection of poems, including an extract from her poem
Poetry Programme preview - poems and translations by Theo Dorgan rte.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rte.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated / Friday, 5 Mar 2021
09:00
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.