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Poet Macdara Woods dies aged 76

Poetry / 17 Jun

Sasha Terfous is one of the poets featured in Represent.

Represent - poetry's new wave get real, raw and authentic

Poetry / 05 Jun

Poem Of The Week: New Year's Resolution by Aidan Matthews

Poetry / 10 May

The poet Thom Gunn (1929-2004): an early fascination with Elvis Presley and bikers

Reviewed: Selected Poems by Thom Gunn

Works and Days: Hesiod's eight century poem, one of the first works in Western literature

Reviewed: Works and Days by Hesiod

Poetry / 03 May

Poetry Programme preview - celebrating Thomas Kinsella at 90

Poetry / 27 Apr

Watch: Doireann Ní Ghríofa's Filmpoem for Poetry Day

Poetry / 26 Apr

Eavan Boland and Olivia O'Leary

Poetry Programme preview - Eavan Boland and Poetry Day Ireland

Poetry Programme / 20 Apr

Doireann Ni Ghriofa and Louis de Paor join Olivia O Leary on this week's Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme preview - a feast of bilingual poetry

Poetry / 13 Apr

Poem Of The Week: Grizzly by Rachel Hegarty

Poetry / 11 Apr

Sinead Morrissey joins Olivia O'Leary on this week's Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme preview - the Good Friday Agreement at 20

Poetry / 06 Apr

The poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) who was executed at the age of 38 by anti-Republican rebels during the Spanish Civil War and whose body has never been found.

Review: Federico García Lorca's Dialogue of Two Snails

Poem Of The Week: Station by Tom French

Poetry / 04 Apr

Jim Lucey (L) and Jean O Brien (R) join Olivia O Leary (centre) on this week's Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme Preview - shining a light on mental health

Poetry / 30 Mar

Poem Of The Week: Diana in the Tide by Michael Coady

Poetry / 28 Mar

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

Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin: Who are the readers of poetry?

Poetry / 20 Mar

Watch: My Ireland by Stephen James Smith

Poetry / 17 Mar

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson (L) with poet Eavan Boland (R)

Eavan Boland - the new documentary celebrating a poetry legend

Poetry / 09 Mar

Man, and poet - Richard Murphy remembered, by Gerard Dawe

Poetry / 02 Feb

Poet Richard Murphy has died aged 90

Poetry / 31 Jan

Gerald Dawe and Eleanor Shanley explore the idea of 'home' in poetry, prose and song.

Bringing it all back home - Lyric Feature preview

Rté Lyric Fm / 29 Jan

Tobias Roberts: poems about dark nights of the soul in Las Vegas and elsewhere.

Reviewed: The Formality of the Page by Tobias Roberts

Pat Boran: an ability to combine analytical sharpness with attention to the world of the senses.

Reviewed: A Man is only As Good... by Pat Boran

Poetry / 22 Jan

Poet Richard Murphy celebrated - His Chosen Islands

Poetry / 11 Jan

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