Podcast appearances and mentions of gerard smyth

Send us Fan MailOn today's show we talk to Joseph Woods, director of the Strokestown Poetry Festival about what this year's programme will offer poetry lovers this May Bank Holiday weekend in Strokestown House. Ands we welcome back to the breakfast table poet and Irish Times reviewer Adam Wyeth to talk with us about recent poetry publications that have grabbed his attention. Adam is himself an award-winning and critically acclaimed poet, playwright and essayist with five books published with Salmon Poetry and we are delighted to have him with us this morning.He will be talking about Rita Ann Higgins, Jiving with Wasps: New and Selected Poems; Gerard Smyth, The Turn for Ithaca; Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Hymn for the Restless Girls; Billy Ramsell, Render; Paddy Bushe, Uncertain Passage; Jamie O'Halloran, Ballast; Colm Scully, Neanderthal Boy. This episode is supported by a Project Award from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, 'Thou Shalt Not Carry' from The Hare's Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it. Logo designed by Freya Sirr.Support the show

Gerard Smyth, journalist, poet and friend

Molly Twomey grew up in Lismore, County Waterford, and graduated in 2019 with an MA in Creative Writing from University College Cork. She has been published in Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, The Irish Times, Mslexia, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. She runs an online international poetry event, Just to Say, sponsored by Jacar Press. In 2021, she was chosen for Poetry Ireland's Introductions series and awarded an Arts Council Literature Bursary. Her debut collection, Raised Among Vultures, will be published in May 2022 with The Gallery Press.This week's Southword poem is ‘Reading Ilya Kaminsky' by Gerard Smyth, which appears in issue 42. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find out how to submit to Southword here.

A decade on from Gerard Smyth's When A City Falls comes the sequel, When A City Rises - The People's Story, which screens tonight on TVNZ 1. The award-winning filmmaker joins the show to discuss the new documentary. .

A decade on from Gerard Smyth's When A City Falls comes the sequel, When A City Rises - The People's Story, which screens tonight on TVNZ 1. The award-winning filmmaker joins the show to discuss the new documentary. .

Monday 22 February marks 10 years since the devastating 2011 Christchurch earthquake. For the last decade filmmaker Gerard Smyth has been documenting the city's recovery from the quake and looking in particular at the rebuild of the central city. Tonight Gerard's documentary called When A City Rises: The People's Story will air on TVNZ 1.It follows up from his prior film released immediately after the earthquakes, called When A City Falls. Gerard Smyth and James Lundy who also contributed to the film, joined Francesca Rudkin to discuss the documentary ahead of its debut. LISTEN ABOVE

Gerard Smyth reads his poem Burning the Manuscripts in this episode of Words Lightly Spoken, a podcast of poetry from Ireland. The poem is from his collection The Sundays of Eternity, published by Dedalus Press.

A poem by Gerard Smyth

On this morning’s programme, we heard: Connections, by Leo Cullen; Lovely Cigar, by Kate Kerrigan; In the Annals of Beara, a poem by Gerard Smyth; The Day my Sister met the Queen, by Roslyn Dee; Winter Dusk, a poem by Grace Wells; and Georgie Boy, by Des MacHale

a poem by Gerard Smyth

Film maker Gerard Smyth spoke to Chris Lynch about the latest episode from Frank Film that looks into the eugenics movement and the unlucky New Zealanders caught up in it. 

Gerard Smyth reads his poem The Heartbroken Poets in this episode of Words Lightly Spoken, a podcast of poetry from Ireland, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Gerard’s work is published by The Dedalus Press.

Pat Boran presents Dublin-born poet Gerard Smyth in a reading from The Fullness of Time: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2010), recorded at the launch of the book in Dublin's Damer Hall, 04 May 2010. For further details, or to purchase this or other Dedalus Press titles, see www.dedaluspress.com