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Poet Ross Thompson and Poetry Programme host Olivia O'Leary

Poetry Programme preview: Peter Sirr and Ross Thompson

Poetry Programme / 06 Dec

Tom French & Olivia O'Leary

Poetry Programme: Deirdre Brennan and Tom French live

Poetry Programme / 25 Nov

Martin Dyar

The Poetry Programme: Michael J Whelan and Martin Dyar

Poetry Programme / 08 Nov

Paula Meehan (L) joins host Olivia O Leary for a live edition of The Poetry Programme

The Poetry Programme celebrates Paula Meehan

Poetry Programme / 21 Oct

The Poetry Programme returns to RTÉ Radio 1, with Stephen Sexton & host Olivia O'Leary

Super Mario and my mother - The Poetry Programme returns

Poetry Programme / 18 Oct

Ron Carey with Poetry Programme host Olivia O Leary

It's never too late to start writing poems - The Poetry Programme

Poetry / 16 May

Novelist Mary Costello reads this week's Poem Of The Week

Poem Of The Week: A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford

Poetry / 14 Dec 18

Poetry Programme host Olivia O'Leary with Don Share

Poetry Programme preview: Don Share & Jane Clarke

Poetry Programme / 02 Nov 18

The late Dennis O'Driscoll is the subject of this week's Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme: Dennis O'Driscoll remembered

Poetry / 29 Oct 18

Poetry Programme host Olivia O Leary, with poet Kim Moore

Poetry Programme preview - young British poets speak up

Poetry / 19 Oct 18

Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin

Poem of the Week: Family Law by Annemarie Ní Churreáin

Poetry / 11 Oct 18

Poem Of The Week: Report by Kerry Hardie

Poetry / 17 Aug 18

Eavan Boland and Olivia O'Leary

Poetry Programme preview - Eavan Boland and Poetry Day Ireland

Poetry Programme / 20 Apr 18

Jackie Kay joins Olivia O'Leary for the first episode of the new

Poetry Programme Preview: Jackie Kay & Leanne O'Sullivan speak up

Poetry / 23 Mar 18

Eavan Boland, recipient of the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards, talks to Olivia O'Leary on the Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme preview - Irish, Moroccan & Galician poets

Poetry / 01 Dec 17

Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin features in this week's edition of The Poetry Programme.

Poetry Programme Preview - meet the new wave of Irish poets

Poetry / 20 Oct 17

RTÉ Poetry Programme preview - tales of love, grief and madness

Poetry / 14 Oct 17

Olivia O'Leary talks to Luke Kennard on this week's Poetry Programme

RTÉ Poetry Programme preview: Frank Ormsby's The Darkness Of Snow

Poetry / 29 Sep 17

Olivia O Leary and Poetry Programme guests Siobhán Campbell and Nessa O'Mahony

RTÉ Poetry Programme Preview: Celebrating Eavan Boland

Poetry / 22 Sep 17

Poet Biddy Jenkinson, author of Iníon léinn i bPáras/A female student in Paris

Poem Of The Week: Iníon léinn i bPáras by Biddy Jeckinson

Poem / 11 Jan 17

Pictured: Poet and musician Cahal Dallat, poet Siobhán Campbell and actor Donal Cox taking part in a recording of the RTÉ Poetry Programme in London, to be broadcast at 7 pm on Christmas Eve.

Poem of the Week: Periwinkles by Siobhán Campbell

Culture / 20 Dec 16

Poem of the Week: An Elegy for David Bowie, by Graham Allen

Culture / 01 Dec 16

Poem of the Week: Veracity by Rafiq Kathwari

Culture / 23 Nov 16

Poem Of The Week: The Trout, by John Montague

Culture / 17 Nov 16

Poet Kimberly Campanello

Poem Of The Week: Excursion, by Kimberly Campanello

Culture / 10 Nov 16

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