What to buy a poetry-lover for Christmas? What about an anthology or journal? A great way to give someone a selection of poems from a range of poets, where they're bound to find something to enjoy, to move them, to make them think.
On the Poetry Programme on Sunday 18th December, at 7 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Nessa O'Mahony and David Butler rise to the challenge to fit as many as suggestions as they can into one programme!
They tell presenter Olivia O'Leary about seven publications:
Poetry Ireland Review, edited by Nessa O’Mahony (published by Poetry Ireland); Romance Options: Love Poems for Today, edited by Leeanne Quinn and Joseph Woods (Dedalus Press); Poems for When You Can't Find the Words, edited by Mary Shine Thompson (Gill Books); The Book of Life, edited by Grace Wells (Dedalus); Howl, a new journal of poetry and prose, edited by Róisín Leggett Bohan and Lauren O’Donovan, with Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh as guest editor for Irish; Vital Signs, poems of illness and healing, edited by Martin Dyar (Poetry Ireland) and The Stony Thursday Book, edited by Annemarie Ní Churreáin (published by Limerick Arts Office and Limerick City and County Council).
We hear poems on the programme by Paula Meehan, Tom French, Aifric Mac Aodha, Jane Clarke, Stephen de Búrca, Maurice Devitt, Eleanor Hooker, Anne Tannam, David Butler and Nessa O'Mahony, all read by the authors.
The Poetry Programme, RTÉ Radio 1, Sundays at 7pm - listen to last week's edition below:
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