Podcasts about poetry ireland

This special episode of the poetry podcast dropped on Thursday 1st May 2025 and featured 32 poets representing the 32 counties on the island of Ireland reading 32 poems in total. It has been supported by Poetry Ireland. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly.

Poetry Day Ireland is fast approaching on May 1st, and we're thrilled to have Anne Tannam, Poet-in-Residence at Poetry Ireland, joining us today. Anne is the spokesperson for the event and is looking forward to a day filled with poetry from across the country.

On being okay with not knowing (it's part of being human), on listening to dreams, and on "overhearing" your book. Enjoy! Lauren Aliza Green is a novelist, poet, and musician. Her debut novel, The World After Alice, is out now from Viking (US) and Penguin Michael Joseph (UK). Her chapbook, A Great Dark House, won the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Virginia Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. Other recognitions include the Eavan Boland Award, sponsored by Poetry Ireland and Stanford University, and a spot on Forbes' 2024 30 Under 30 list.

The Works Festival, in partnership with Poetry Ireland, Rascals Brewery and Smithfield Creatives, is proud to announce its second event on 24th August 2024 at CIE Hall, Library Square, Inchicore.I chatted to Adam about what to expect from the festival and the creative scene in Dublin. Hopefully see you there this weekend!Ticketshttps://ticketstop.live/events/200The Works Festival Instagraminstagram.com/theworksfestival/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John M. Kennedy recites "The Art of Listening". A poem written by Anne Tannam, the award winning poet, from Drimnagh - Dublin, and the current Poet in Residence with Poetry Ireland (2023 - 2025). In this episode, John also slightly introduces the roadblocks of listening following the investigations of Thomas Gordon. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-kennedy98/message

Mícheál McCann is a poet from Derry City. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Poetry Review, Queering the Green and elsewhere. He is the author of Safe Home (Green Bottle Press, 2020), Keeper (Fourteen Publishing, 2022) and Waking Light (Skein Press, 2022) alongside Kerri ní Dochartaigh. He is the co-editor of Hold Open the Door (UCD Press, 2020), Trumpet (Poetry Ireland, 2020), the founding editor of catflap, and will be the editor of Poetry Ireland Review in summer 2024. His first collection of poems, Devotion, is forthcoming with The Gallery Press in May 2024.    Bebe Ashley lives in County Down. Her work is recently published in Granta, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her debut collection Gold Light Shining is published by Banshee Press and her second collection forthcoming in 2025. In 2023, Bebe received the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment (Text) and a Creative Practitioner Bursary from Belfast City Council. Her 3D-printed Braille poems will be featured in a six-month exhibition at the Museum of Literature Ireland from February 2024. www.bebe-ashley.com   Dara McWade is a writer and workshop facilitator from Dublin, living in Belfast. He writes fiction and screenplays. His work can be found on BBC Radio Ulster, the Books Beyond Boundaries NI Anthology, and in the Apiary magazine, where he currently serves as editor-in-chief. He is the co-writer of the upcoming animated short “To Break a Circle,” and currently studies as a PhD candidate at Queen's University Belfast. Dara McWade

Not Books for Breakfast this time but a link to our poetry programme Stanza on RTE Radio 1In conversation with fellow poets, Paula Meehan and Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr will discuss why poetry matters. We also visit Poetry Ireland to hear about their big plans for 2024, and hear from viral spoken word poet Mikey Cullen. Produced by Clockwork Productions, producer Fiona Kelly. Additional reporting by Taylor Mooney.Support the show

Recorded November 21, 2023. Literature & Resistance: Poetry Reading with Éireann Lorsung, Majed Mujed, and Hua Xi Hosted by the Centre for Resistance Studies and Poetry Ireland Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Tuesday 21 November, 6pm The Centre for Resistance Studies is delighted to be partnering again with Poetry Ireland to welcome three acclaimed poets for a special reading in our ongoing series on Literature & Resistance. Éireann Lorsung, Majed Mujed, and Hua Xi will join us to read from and discuss their work. They will explore the nature of resistance in poetry, and how it informs their relationships with language, form, and translation, and reflect on their broader experiences with writing and poetry, which encompass journalism, teaching, and publishing, in the US, Iraq, and Ireland. Please join us for an evening of beautiful poetry and stimulating conversation on the politics and power of the written word. *** Éireann Lorsung will walk or take the bus or ride a bicycle; will crouch to look at the ground beneath her feet; will spend an hour thinking with you on how a poem works and come back tomorrow to ask again; will watch the light change and the small plants arrive. She loves to make things with other people in the “location of possibility” that the classroom is. She teaches writing at University College Dublin, and is learning about fruit cultivation, gull behavior, the wild and domestic plants of Ireland, and climate change alongside others in the city. A 2016 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, her most recent collection is The Century (Milkweed, 2020). Majed Mujed was born in Iraq in 1971 and has lived in Ireland since 2015. One of the founders of the Iraqi House of Poetry, he worked as a journalist and publisher in the Iraqi cultural press for twenty years. He has published five collections of poetry in Arabic and has garnered awards for his work from the Al Mada Cultural Foundation, Iraqi House of Wisdom and Iraqi Intellectuals Conference. In 2021, he was one of the inaugural recipients of a Play It Forward Fellowship from the Arts Council of Ireland. His collection The Book of Trivialities, originally written in his native Arabic, was translated into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and published by Skein Press in 2023. It was selected by the Arts Council for the #ReadMór project for Culture Night 2023. Majed will be joined by the translator and interpreter Mustafa Keshkeia, who is currently working on a PhD on crisis translation at DCU. Hua Xi (she/they) is the Poetry Ireland Eavan Boland Emerging Artist Awardee for 2023. A writer and artist, their work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. They previously won the Boston Review Poetry Contest, were named the 2022 Poet-to-Come Scholar by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, and received a 2023 NEA Fellowship in Poetry. They help edit interviews at Guernica and read poetry for The Drift.

Anne Tannam talks about Angus Fletcher, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and the crone energy which runs through her forthcoming collection as she tells Ruth McKee which books she would save if her house was on fire.  Anne Tannam is Poet in Residence with Poetry Ireland (2023 - 2025). She is the author of three poetry collections: Take This Life (Wordonthestreet 2011), Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor (Salmon 2017) and Twenty-six Letters of a New Alphabet (Salmon 2021). Her fourth collection dismantle is forthcoming with Salmon in early 2024.

Thomas is interviewed by distinguished Irish poet, theologian and mediator, and the host of the Poetry Unbound podcast, Pádraig Ó Tuama. They discuss the relationship between spirituality, religion, and trauma, and the importance of incorporating art - including writing, poetry, and visual art - into social healing rituals. Pádraig emphasizes that “Art speaks to our being in a different way than rational words.” Their conversation also focuses on the need for structured spaces in society where people can eschew dogmatic thinking and digest fear and pain together in order to feel more grounded and gain valuable new perspectives. ✨ Registration is open for Thomas' all-new, live online course: The Spiritual Healing Journey Learn more and sign up here:

On this month's episode, publisher and founding editor Declan Meade is joined by poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin who has just been announced as The Stinging Fly's next poetry editor. Annemarie will take over the role from Cal Doyle in November. Here she talks about her own work as poet and editor, and reads recently published poems by Paula Meehan and Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan. Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet and editor from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Her publications include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), Town (The Salvage Press, 2018) and The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021). She is a recipient of the Arts Council's Next Generation Artist Award and a co-recipient of The Markievicz Award. Her literary fellowships include awards from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany and the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando. Annemarie was a 2022-2023 Decades of Centenaries Poet in Residence at the Donegal County Service Archives and she is an active member of the Writers in Irish Prisons Scheme. Annemarie has edited The Stony Thursday Book No. 18 (Winter 2022) and the current issue of Poetry Ireland Review (140). Paula Meehan's poem ‘Natal Horoscope' is one of four of her poems that were included in our poetry issue, Summer 2022. Paula's latest collection, The Solace of Artemis, will be published by Dedalus Press in November. Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan's poem ‘The Knee' was published in our all new writers issue, Winter 2022-23. More of her work has been published by Dedalus Press, UCD Press, Lifeboat Press, Banshee, Poetry Ireland, and others.   The Stinging Fly Podcast invites writers to choose work from our 25-year archive to read and discuss. Previous episodes of the podcast can be found here. The podcast's theme music is ‘Sale of Lakes', by Divan. All of the Stinging Fly archive is available to subscribers.

Tá Gradam Céadlínte bronnta ag Poetry Ireland ar an bhfile óg Gormfhlaith Ni Shiocháin Ni Bheolain.

In 2014 Poetry Ireland and the Peacock Theatre hosted a very special event, Eavan Boland in conversation with Paula Meehan to celebrate Eavan's 70th birthday

This week, I'm in conversation with queer Black theologian and Anglican priest Father Jarel Robinson-Brown, whose theology and pastoral practice offer a re-embodied understanding of Christianity. Jarel is one of many theologians, poets and philosophers whose work has offered me an affirming and vitalising framework for understanding and practising my evolving spirituality. You'll have heard me talk about author Sophie Strand, biological philosopher Andreas Weber and poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama, who joins me today for a conversation about his new book of poetry, Feed the Beast, which features poems wrestling with sexuality and religion. Today, we discuss the body as a site of divine and erotic intelligence, the potential of poetry to help us approach and unlock our desires and Pádraig reads four of his poems: “Monster”, “Exorcism”, “Someone” and “How to Be Alone”. About Pádraig Ó Tuama Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and theologian from Ireland. His work has appeared in Poetry Ireland, The Harvard Review, Gutter and the Academy of American Poets. He is host of the podcast Poetry Unbound from On Being Studios and his newest collection of poetry, Feed the Beast, is available from Broken Sleep Books. About Busy Being Black Busy Being Black is an exploration and expression of quare liveliness and my guests are those who have learned to live, love and thrive at the intersection of their identities. Your support of the show means the world. Please leave a rating and a review and share these conversations far and wide. As we continue to work towards futures worthy of us all, my hope is that as many of you as possible understand Busy Being Black as a soft, tender and intellectually rigorous place for you to land.  Thank you to our funding partner, myGwork – the business community for LGBT+ professionals, students, inclusive employers and anyone who believes in workplace equality. Thank you to my friend Lazarus Lynch for creating the ancestral and enlivening Busy Being Black theme music. Thank you to Lucian Koncz and Stevie Gatez for helping bring new Busy Being Black artwork into the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gordon Ferris was born and raised in Finglas, a North West suburb of Dublin. In the early eighties, he moved to Donegal where he has lived ever since. He started writing in 2014 and has had many short stories and poems in publications including Hidden Channel, A New Ulster, The Galway Review, Impspired Magazine, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. He has also won prizes in the summer 2020  HITA Creative Writing Competition for his poem 'Mother,' and won the winter competition for his poem 'The Silence.' Gordon was awarded a Poetry Town Bursary by Poetry Ireland. Early in 2023, Echoes, his first book of short stories, will be released January 15, 2023. Special Guests - Simon Ferris and Rebecca Kennedy         

Recorded November 8, 2022 A special event exploring poetry and resistance organized by the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and Poetry Ireland as part of the Literature and Resistance Series. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and Anthony Anaxagorou joined us to read from their work, and to discuss how ideas of resistance inform and emerge from their writing, and how such ideas have also shaped their work beyond poetry, in research, teaching, mentoring, and publishing. The evening was introduced and chaired by Seán Hewitt, award-winning author of Tongues of Fire (2020) and All Down Darkness Wide (2022), and Teaching Fellow in the School of English at Trinity. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. Auguries of a Minor God, her first collection, was a finalist for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize, John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize and the Butler Literary Award. In 2021, it was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, National Poetry Day Recommendation, Shakespeare & Co. Year of Reading Selection, and a Book of the Year by both The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. The recipient of a Next Generation Artist Award and Ireland Chair of Poetry Award, she serves as an advisor on the boards of Culture Ireland and Diversifying Irish Poetry. Founder of the Play It Forward Fellowships for writers traditionally underrepresented in Irish literature, she is poetry editor at Skein Press and Fallow Media, and contributing editor with The Stinging Fly. Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. He is publications include the collections After the Formalities (Penned in the Margins, 2019), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book of the Year in both the Guardian and the Telegraph, and Heritage Aesthetics, published in November 2022. He is also the author of How To Write It (Merky Books, 2020), a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing, the craft of poetry and fiction, and the wider publishing industry. In 2022 Anthony founded Propel Magazine, an online literary journal featuring the work of poets yet to publish a first collection. He is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London's Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press.

Claire Keegan's novel Small Things Like These, is set in 1985, where we meet Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant in New Ross - Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing is Poetry Ireland's new anthology by Martin Dyar - We review new music by Norwegian electronic duo Royksopp, and Weyes Blood.

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.

Order your copy of ‘Poems for when you can't find the words' here In this episode, I speak to Mary Shine Thompson about the power of poetry at end-of-life and during times of grief. We also talk about her personal experiences of loss; how the death of her brother as young adults reshaped her life, and how the death of her mother at age 93, brought with it a profound grief. It's another beautiful conversation that looks at yet more Shapes of Grief. Poems for When You Can't Find the Words is a comforting collection of poetry from the Irish Hospice Foundation surrounding loss and end of life. The book brings together classic poets, beloved Irish figures, medieval translations and new commissions, which together form a diverse anthology designed to bring solace and refuge to those in need. Created in partnership with Poetry Ireland, Poems for When You Can't Find the Words offers intimate verse of honesty, candour and solidarity to patients, carers and the bereaved alike. Readers will find comfort in the penned reflections of death, grief, loss and love that span the barriers of time, geography and language. ‘Sometimes, the right words in the right order remain tantalisingly beyond our reach: when, for example, emotions are raw, or formless, or just overwhelming,' said Mary Shine Thompson, who edited and introduced the collection. ‘[Poetry] speaks to the fears and concerns that illness and approaching death awaken. Poetry can keep us going.' An essential collection for those leaving or left, Poems for When You Can't Find the Words includes comforting works by Patrick Kavanagh, Louise Glück, Seamus Heaney, Emily Dickinson, Michael D. Higgins, Paula Meehan and more. Irish Hospice Foundation is a national charity that addresses dying, death and bereavement in Ireland. Their vision is an Ireland where people facing end of life or bereavement, and those who care for them, are provided with the care and support that they need. Mary Shine Thompson lectured in English at St Patrick's College Drumcondra, now Dublin City University, until her retirement. Her edition of Skelligs Haul, by Michael Kirby, was published in 2019, and her exploration of the literary heritage of Westmeath features in Westmeath: Literature and Society (edited by S. O'Brien and W. Nolan, 2022). She is a former chair of Poetry Ireland, the national organisation for poetry, and also of Imram, Féile Litríochta Gaeilge. Poems for When You Can't Find the Words by the Irish Hospice Foundation will be published by Gill Books on Thursday, 1 September 2022, priced at €16.99. For publicity enquiries, contact Kristen Olson, Publicist, kolson@gill.ie / 086 013 7939.

Gordon Ferris was born and raised in Finglas, a North West suburb of Dublin. In the early eighties, he moved to Donegal where he has lived ever since. He started writing in 2014 and has had many short stories and poems in publications including Hidden Channel, A New Ulster, The Galway Review, Impspired Magazine, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. He has also won prizes in the summer 2020  HITA Creative Writing Competition for his poem 'Mother', and won the winter competition for his poem 'The Silence'.  Gordon was awarded a Poetry Town Bursary by Poetry Ireland.

Alvy Carragher is an Irish poet based in Toronto. She has published two books of poetry and a children's novel. Her poetry has appeared in various anthologies, literary websites and publications such as The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, The Guardian, and The Galway Review. Her second poetry book "the men I keep under my bed" was published in 2021, and her debut collection of poetry, "Falling in love with broken things," was published in 2016, both by Salmon Poetry. ​ She represented Poetry Ireland as the delegate for the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series in 2016 in the Lincoln Center, NYC. Eavan Boland chose her as a featured poet in the 122nd issue of the Poetry Ireland Review. Read more about Alvy here. If you would like to read more of her poems, they can be found here or you can watch her amazing readings here. As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried send me a message on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet? Eh Poetry Podcast Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message

A keynote lecture delivered by Edna Longley as part of the 'Derek Mahon: Conference to celebrate poet's life and work'. The life and work of poet Derek Mahon will be celebrated (Friday 19th & Saturday 20th November) in Trinity College Dublin. A conference, which is being held in advance of what would have been the poet's 80th birthday, has been organised by Trinity's School of English in association with Poetry Ireland and will be hosted in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. To mark the occasion an online exhibition entitled Derek Mahon: Piecing Together the Poet has been organised jointly by the Library of Trinity College Dublin and the Stewart Rose Library of Emory University (home to the principal Mahon archive). The exhibition features readings by Mahon himself and Stephen Rea along with specially commissioned interviews with friends and fellow poets. The exhibition also features atmospheric photographs by John Minihan.

A keynote lecture delivered by Lucy Collins as part of the 'Derek Mahon: Conference to celebrate poet's life and work'. The life and work of poet Derek Mahon will be celebrated (Friday 19th & Saturday 20th November) in Trinity College Dublin. A conference, which is being held in advance of what would have been the poet's 80th birthday, has been organised by Trinity's School of English in association with Poetry Ireland and will be hosted in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. To mark the occasion an online exhibition entitled Derek Mahon: Piecing Together the Poet has been organised jointly by the Library of Trinity College Dublin and the Stewart Rose Library of Emory University (home to the principal Mahon archive). The exhibition features readings by Mahon himself and Stephen Rea along with specially commissioned interviews with friends and fellow poets. The exhibition also features atmospheric photographs by John Minihan.

A keynote lecture delivered by Hugh Haughton as part of the 'Derek Mahon: Conference to celebrate poet's life and work'. The life and work of poet Derek Mahon will be celebrated (Friday 19th & Saturday 20th November) in Trinity College Dublin. A conference, which is being held in advance of what would have been the poet's 80th birthday, has been organised by Trinity's School of English in association with Poetry Ireland and will be hosted in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. To mark the occasion an online exhibition entitled Derek Mahon: Piecing Together the Poet has been organised jointly by the Library of Trinity College Dublin and the Stewart Rose Library of Emory University (home to the principal Mahon archive). The exhibition features readings by Mahon himself and Stephen Rea along with specially commissioned interviews with friends and fellow poets. The exhibition also features atmospheric photographs by John Minihan.

Tom Tracey reads The Proposal in this episode of Words Lightly Spoken, a podcast of poetry from Ireland. The poem had its first public reception at the International Literature Festival Dublin in 2018 as part of Poetry Ireland's Introductions series. The Words Lightly Spoken podcast is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and is a Rockfinch production.

Wexford Poet Laureate Sasha Terfous speaks to Alan Corcoran on how she became interested in poetry and on the news of becoming Wexford's Poet Laureate for Poetry Ireland.

Waiting for Poirot is an ensemble piece from playwright, Mike Finn, staged in the People's Park, Limerick, limetreetheatre.ie , Festival in a Van & Poetry Ireland bring Words Move to venues across Ireland, award-winning poet Rachael Hegarty is one of the performers, Dani Larkin is a rising star, her debut album is Notes for a Maiden Warrior

Rattlecast #95 features a contributor to last winter's issue, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, and her debut collection The Yak Dilemma. She'll join us at noon EDT, but we'll start with a half-hour of Poets Respond Live. Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal was born in the Himalayan town of Palampur, India. She studied at St. Bede's College, Shimla; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen's University, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German and Italian, and have recently appeared in Ambit, Banshee, Gutter, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Jukebox, Poetry London, The Bombay Literary Magazine, The Irish Times, The Lonely Crowd, The Pickled Body, The Tangerine and elsewhere. In 2018, she was one of the twelve poets selected for Poetry Ireland's ‘Introductions' series. She is the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent. The Yak Dilemma is her first full-length collection. For more on the author, and to order the book, visit: https://www.supriyakaurdhaliwal.com/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a parasite—be as literal or figurative as you wish. Next Week's Prompt: Write a a poem in which an inanimate object or concept is personified. (See “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath for a great example.) The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts. Segments: 3:03 Richard Westheimer: "An American Jew Fails to Make Sense of the Carnage in Gaza" 12:35 Poets Respond Live continues 30:00 Featured Guest: Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal 1:33:15 Open Lines

Nithy Kasa reads The Blouse. Nithy Kasa is a Dublin based poet from the DR Congo. She was a guest poet for Carlow University's MFA Residency 2019, shortlisted for Red Line Book Festival and published in Writing Home: The New Irish Poets. She’s read for Poetry Ireland, Ó Bhéal, RTE Poetry Programme, NUI Galway and the Royal Irish Academy

Míníonn Diarmuid Lyng, iar-chaptaen Loch Garman, agus Rian Ó Dúill cad é atá i gceist le ‘Free Hurling’. Labhraíonn na filí Máire Burns agus Stiofán Ó Direáin faoin duanatón atá beartaithe ag Éigse Éireann le glór na n-aosach a chluinstin le linn na paindéime agus roineann siad a dtaithí féin faoin néaltrú. Agus Seachtain Mheabhairshláinte na bPáistí linn, tugann an síciatraí Dearbhail Uí Lughaidh a comhairle maidir le sláinte mheabhrach páistí a chaomhnú le linn na dianghlasála seo. Former Wexford captain Diarmuid Lyng and Rian Ó Dúill talk about Diarmuid's new concept ‘Free Hurling’. Poets Máire Burns and Stiofán Ó Direáin speak about the poemathon planned by Poetry Ireland to give voice to the elderly throughout the pandemic and share their experiences with dementia. For Children’s Mental Health Week, Psychiatrist Dearbhail Uí Lughaidh has advice on dealing with children’s mental health during this lockdown.

A chance to hear again Amanda Bell reading her poem Xmas, first posted in December 2019. You can listen back to Amanda discussing this poem with Paul Perry in Episode 50 of Words Lightly Spoken, a special, extended episode made in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and marking the publication of Volume 129 of Poetry Ireland Review. Also taking part was another contributor to the Review, Eleanor Hooker.

A chance to hear again Eleanor Hooker reading her poem A Landscape Forfeited to Snow, first posted in December 2019. You can listen back to Eleanor discussing this poem with Paul Perry in Episode 50 of Words Lightly Spoken, a special, extended episode made in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and marking the publication of Volume 129 of Poetry Ireland Review. Also taking part was another contributor to the Review, Amanda Bell.

Leabhair, Léitheoireacht agus Cúrsaí Eile: Laureate na nÓg Áine Ní Ghlinn i gcomhrá le Manchán Magan File agus scríbhneoir do pháistí í Laureate na nÓg, Áine Ní Ghlinn. Bhuaigh trí cinn dá húrscéalta (Daideo, Hata Zú Mhamó & Boscadán) Gradam Reics Carló (Leabhar Gaeilge na Bliana). Bhuaigh Daideo Gradam Ficsin Leabhair Pháistí Éireann chomh maith le Gradam Leabhar na Bliana ó Chumann Léitheoireachta na hÉireann. Tá 26 leabhar do dhaoine óga foilsithe aici agus 5 chnuasach filíochta do dhaoine fásta. Údar agus craoltóir é Manchán Magan a bhfuil go leor cláir teilifíse déanta aige. Tá dhá úrscéal scríofa aige chomh maith le leabhair éagsúla faoi chúrsaí taistil. Scríobhann sé colún taistil don Irish Times agus bíonn sé le cloisteáil go minic ar an raidió. Is iomaí clár faisnéise atá curtha i láthair aige faoi chúrsaí taistil agus faoi chultúir idirnáisiúnta. Is é an leabhar is déanaí dá chuid ná Thirty Two Words for Field. Is togra de chuid na Comhairle Ealaíon é Laureate na nÓg a fhaigheann tacaíocht ón Aire Leanaí agus Gnóthaí Óige, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann, Éigse Éireann agus Comhairle Ealaíon Thuaisceart Éireann. Books, Reading and Other Matters: Laureate na nÓg Áine Ní Ghlinn in conversation with Manchán Magan Áine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg 2020 – 2022. Three of her YA novels have won Gradam Reics Carló (Irish Language Book of the Year). Daideo also won a CBI fiction award and LAI Book of the Year. To date, she has published 5 collections of poetry and 26 books for children and young adults. Manchán Magan is a writer and documentary-maker. He has written numerous books on his travels and two novels. He writes occasionally for The Irish Times, reports on travel for various radio programmes, and has presented dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture. His latest book is Thirty-Two Words for Field. Laureate na nÓg is an initiative of the Arts Council, managed on the Council’s behalf by Children’s Books Ireland, with the support of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and Poetry Ireland.

Mark Roper was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1951. He moved to Ireland with his partner Jane in 1980 and has lived in Ireland ever since. He has seven collections of poetry published including his latest book ‘Bindweed’ which was published by Dedalus in 2017. ‘Bindweed’ was shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award, as was Mark’s previous book ‘A Gather of Shadow’ which won the Michael Hartnett Award in 2014. He has worked on many collaborative projects down through the years including three books with the photographer Paddy Dwan: ‘The River Book: A Celebration of the Suir’, ‘The Backstrand: Tramore’s Open Secret’, and ‘Comeragh: Mountain, Coum, River, Rumour’. They are currently working on a book about the County Waterford coastline. He has written two librettos for operas composed by Eric Sweeney. Mark was editor of ‘Poetry Ireland’ for 1999. He has taught creative writing and literature classes for over twenty-five years. He was writer-in-residence at Waterford Regional Hospital from September 2002 to May 2003.Mark’s website: http://www.mark-roper.com/index.phpLink to buy his latest collection ‘Bindweed’, published by Dedalus in 2017: http://dedaluspress.com/product/bindweed/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Writers and linguists have been debating how a full stop in a text message or email can be seen as blunt and unfriendly to young people. That’s after a study from Binghamton University in New York suggested that messages ending on full stops are perceived as insincere. Joining me now to discuss this is Catherine Ann Cullen, song writer, children’s writer and poet in residence with Poetry Ireland.

A chance to hear again Seán Hewitt reading his poem Ghost, first posted in April 2019. You can listen back to Seán discussing this poem with Paul Perry in Episode 15 of Words Lightly Spoken, a special, extended episode made in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and marking the publication of Volume 127 of Poetry Ireland Review. Also taking part were two other contributors to the Review, Jean O’Brien and Freddie Trevaskis Hoskin.

A chance to hear again Freddie Travaskis Hoskin reading their poem To Most of You, first posted in April 2019. You can listen back to Freddie discussing this poem with Paul Perry in Episode 15 of Words Lightly Spoken, a special, extended episode made in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and marking the publication of Volume 127 of Poetry Ireland Review. Also taking part were two other contributors to the Review, Jean O’Brien and Seán Hewitt.

A chance to hear again Jean O’Brien reading her poem Once I Woke, first posted in April 2019. You can listen back to Jean discussing this poem with Paul Perry in Episode 15 of Words Lightly Spoken, a special, extended episode made in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and marking the publication of Volume 127 of Poetry Ireland Review. Also taking part were two other contributors to the Review, Freddie Trevaskis Hoskin and Seán Hewitt.

A chance to hear again Angela Finn reading her poem Burnout, first posted in September 2019. You can listen back to Angela discussing this poem with Paul Perry in Episode 35 of Words Lightly Spoken, a special, extended episode made in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and marking the publication of Volume 128 of Poetry Ireland Review. 

A chance to hear again Jonathan C. Creasy reading his poem Generation, first posted in September 2019. You can listen back to Jonathan discussing this poem with Paul Perry in Episode 35 of Words Lightly Spoken, a special, extended episode made in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and marking the publication of Volume 128 of Poetry Ireland Review. Also taking part were two other contributors to the Review, Angela Finn and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe.

Eva Griffin is a poet living in Dublin and a UCD graduate with an MA in Gender, Sexuality & Culture. She is a founding member of Not4U Collective, hosting events, running workshops, and publishing zines. So far, the collective has raised funds and awareness for Together for Yes, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, and Bodywhys. They were awarded a Bright Ideas 2019 Bursary from Poetry Ireland, and have presented panels on DIY publishing in Queen’s University Belfast and University College Cork. Eva was chosen as a Dublin Book Festival Young Writer Delegate by the Irish Writer’s Centre in 2019. She has read her work extensively around Dublin, at charity events, Red Line Book Festival and as a featured poet at Books Upstairs’ Sunday Sessions. Her work has been published in Poethead, The Ogham Stone, Tales From the Forest, All the Sins, Ghost City Review, HeadStuff, Peach Magazine, Abridged and New Binary Press. Her debut pamphlet ‘Fake Hands / Real Flowers’ is available from Broken Sleep Books

A chance to hear again Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe reading her poem Be/cause, first posted in September 2019. You can listen back to Nidhi discussing this poem with Paul Perry in Episode 35 of Words Lightly Spoken, a special, extended episode made in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and marking the publication of Volume 128 of Poetry Ireland Review. Also taking part were two other contributors to the Review, Angela Finn and Jonathan C Creasy. Episode 35 of the Words Lightly Spoken podcast was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Tá Paddy Bushe ag léamh dánta do dhaoine ar an dteileafón! Seo scéim atá ar bun aige Poetry Ireland ina léann file dánta ar an dteileafón dtí duine éigin atá suite aige baile.

As part of ILFDublin 2019, we were delighted to welcome Sophie Collins, Zaffar Kunial and Hannah Sullivan, three exciting new voices in poetry. The event was presented in association with Faber & Faber for their 90th anniversary, and kindly supported by Poetry Ireland. ILFDublin is an initiative of Dublin City Council, kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

I sit down with Jim Crickard on the rooftop of the Tara Building before his Therapy Sessions gig, as part of the First Fortnight Festival. We chat about poetry, Panti Bliss, First Fortnight Festival, Drag and Poetry and plenty of other great things. Jim Crickard’s poetry is camp and entertaining work with a sassy social-political edge. His work explores themes such as culture, sexuality and identity. In 2019 he was selected by Poetry Ireland for the inaugural Versify series, and performed to a sold out show at Dublin Fringe Festival. He came second in the 2019 All Ireland Poetry Slam Final. In 2018, he won the Cuirt Spoken Word Platform and was awarded a slot to perform at Electric Picnic. In January, 2020 he will be performing in Cork and Dublin with the First Fortnight festival alongside acclaimed poet, Stephen James Smith. He was shortlisted for the 2018 O'Bheal International Five Words Competition, and has work published in Automatic Pilot, A New Ulster, and Contemporary Poetry. He can be found on Facebook. With Being Earnest, I hope to create a space away from the noise of everyday life and distraction. I hope to offer a place, to listen, to share, to be engaged and hopefully inspired. Each week I'll be joined by sound people doing great things to have honest and genuine chats. I hope you enjoy Being Earnest. Thanks for Listening. Many more thanks go to the following people: Photography: Caitríona Muireann Music: Chef Brian- LATASHÁ/YouTube Audio Library Special Thanks to Jen Butler Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat agus Grá Mór

This episode of Words Lightly Spoken is made in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and marks the publication of the winter 2019 issue of Poetry Ireland Review. The presenter is Paul Perry and his guests are two of the contributors to the Review: Eleanor Hooker and Amanda Bell. The podcast is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Simon Ó Faoláin reads his poem Léaslínte, and the English translation, Horizons, in this episode of Words Lightly Spoken, a podcast of poetry from Ireland, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Simon is one of the contributors to Calling Cards: Ten Younger Irish Poets, published by The Gallery Press and Poetry Ireland.

This episode of Words Lightly Spoken is made in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and marks the publication of the summer 2019 issue of Poetry Ireland Review. The presenter is Paul Perry and his guests are three of the contributors to the Review: Angela Finn, Jonathan C Creasy and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe. The podcast is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.

This episode of Words Lightly Spoken is made in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and marks the publication of the spring 2019 issue of Poetry Ireland Review. The presenter is Paul Perry and his guests are three of the contributors to the Review: Seán Hewitt, Jean O’Brien and Freddie Trevaskis Hoskin.

Words Lightly Spoken is a podcast of poetry from Ireland, funded by the Arts Council. In this episode, Doireann Ní Ghríofa reads her poem While Bleeding © Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Doireann’s work is published by Dedalus Press, and is also included in the Calling Cards anthology, co-published by The Gallery Press and Poetry Ireland.  

In the November edition of the podcast, Sally Rooney is joined in the studio by Jessica Traynor. They read and discuss Wendy Erskine's story, 'To All Their Dues', first published by the Stinging Fly in Summer 2016 and included in Erskine's recently-published debut collection, Sweet Home. Jessica Traynor was born in Dublin in 1984. Her poems have been published widely, and her debut collection, Liffey Swim (Dedalus Press, 2014), was shortlisted for the Strong/Shine Award. She won the Listowel Poetry Prize in 2011, was named Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year in 2013, and in 2014 was the recipient of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary. She has been commissioned by the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland, and the Salvage Press. She has worked as Literary Manager for the Abbey Theatre and is currently Deputy Museum Director at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. Her latest collection, The Quick, has just been published by Dedalus Press.  Wendy Erskine lives in Belfast. Her work has been published in The Stinging Fly, Stinging Fly Stories and Female Lines: New Writing by Women from Northern Ireland (New Island Books) and is forthcoming in Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber and Faber), Winter Papers and on BBC Radio 4. Erskine's debut collection, Sweet Home, was published by the Stinging Fly Press in September 2018.

President Michael D. Higgins received representatives of Poetry Ireland to mark its 40th anniversary and Children’s Books Ireland to mark its 20th anniversary Wednesday, 20th September, 2017 Time: 11:30 Location: Áras an Uachtaráin