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In the
Poetry Programme on Sunday 16th May, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Olivia O Leary’s guests are John FitzGerald and Ireland Professor of Poetry Frank Ormsby.
John FitzGerald is University Librarian at University College Cork and started to write poetry around ten years ago, in his late forties. While still unpublished, he won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Prize for 2014. A pamphlet,
First Cut, was published in 2017 by Southword Editions, and he joins Olivia to talk about his first full-length collection,
The Time Being, published by The Gallery Press in June 2021.
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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
Updated / Thursday, 29 Apr 2021
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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
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.