Updated / Friday, 7 May 2021
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In the
Poetry Programme on Sunday 9th May, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Olivia O Leary’s guests are Leontia Flynn and Matthew Geden.
Award-winning poet Leontia Flynn was born in Co Down and lives in Belfast, where she teaches Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre. She has published four full collections, with
These Days winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her 2017 collection,
The Radio (Cape Poetry), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize and received the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.
She joins Olivia to talk about her work and to read a selection of work form
Patricia Moriarty, the UL Arts Officer at the old postbox in Mountshannon. Photograph by John Kelly
A little bit of poetry in the post for 1,000 Clare homes
May 2, 2021
ONE THOUSAND homes in East Clare received a Poetry Day surprise on Thursday (April 29), courtesy of Scariff Post Office and University of Limerick (UL) Arts Officer, Patricia Moriarty.
Across the county boundary, a further 1,000 homes will have what Patricia described as “a side serving of poetry,” with their deliveries from meals on wheels services in Limerick.
“Every year, Poetry Ireland produces Pocket Poems, where poets create work that’s printed on postcards,” Patricia explained.
Updated / Thursday, 29 Apr 2021
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On Saturday 17 April, a host of Irish writers and performers participated in a public zoom event drawing attention to the subject of Irish Mother and Baby Homes and other Church and State-run institutions, and exploring the difficult question of how artists can bear witness to suffering and trauma, working ethically and responsibly while utilizing craft and poetic technique to illuminate human experience - watch
SIX STORYTELLERS and writers, from Galway, Ireland, and abroad, will read poems and discuss the inspiration behind the work, in an online event for Poetry Day Ireland.
The Poetry Programme previews Poetry Day Ireland 2021
Updated / Friday, 23 Apr 2021
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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.