In the Poetry Programme on Sunday 23rd October 2022 on RTÉ Radio 1, Liz Quirke and Mark Roper read from their new collections, and Moya Cannon remembers those who died in Creeslough, in Donegal.
Mark Roper was born in England and has lived in Ireland since 1980. He has published a number of collections including The Hen Ark (1990), which won the Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection. His 2018 collection, Bindweed, was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. He joins presenter Olivia O'Leary to read from his new collection, Beyond Stillness, which he tracks the environmental damage wrought by climate change.
Liz Quirke is a poet from Kerry and lectures in creative writing at the school of English and Digital Humanities in University College Cork. She talks about poets she looks to in her teaching and reads her poem Women Poets Teach Me from her first collection, The Road, Slowly, published by Salmon Poetry in 2018. She also reads work from her new collection, How We Arrive In Winter, published by Salmon Poetry in 2022, which reflects on grief and on our hopes and fears for the future.
The programme ends with a new poem, Friday, by Donegal-born poet Moya Cannon, which remembers those who died in the tragedy in Cresslough on Friday 7th October 2022.
The Poetry Programme, RTÉ Radio 1, Sundays at 7pm - listen to last week's edition of The Poetry Programme below:
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