The Poetry Programme on Sunday 29th April at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1 features two Dublin poets from different generations, as Colm Keegan reads from his second collection and the programme marks the 90th birthday of Thomas Kinsella.
Colm Keegan was born in Ballymun in Dublin and grew up in Tallaght. He won the All Ireland Poetry Slam in 2010, and has been shortlisted four times for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award for both poetry and fiction. He is a creative writing teacher and co-founder of the Inklinks Project, a creative writing initiative for young writers.
Colm joins Olivia to talk about his second collection, Randomer (Salmon Poetry), life as a writer, and how he thinks his work has developed since he published his first collection in 2012.
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Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1928, and to mark his 90th birthday on 4th May, Lucy Collins, Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, and co-founder of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive, joins Olivia to talk about his work.
Via RTÉ Archives: Poet Thomas Kinsella in 1976
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Since the publication of Poems by The Dolmen Press in 1956, Thomas Kinsella has published many collections of his own work, as well as translations from Irish, winning prizes and admiration internationally. In 2007, he was awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin. That year, he also recorded a selection of his work which was published on the double CD Thomas Kinsella Poems 1956-2006, and the programme includes readings of poems in the poet’s own voice.
This is the final Poetry Programme in the current series and Olivia O’Leary will return with a new series in the autumn. Until then, all previous episodes are available to listen back to on the RTÉ radio player.
The Poetry Programme, Sunday 29th April at 7:30 pm
