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Heart Of Summer: Mary Costello, Vona Groarke, Olivia O'Leary and Julie Feeney

Poem of the Week: Vona Groarke's No One Uses Doilies Any More

Poetry / 13 Aug

Poem Of The Week: Pat Boran's Learning To Drive

Poetry / 04 Aug

Joseph Woods: Rangoon and Ireland in the poet's sights

Reviewed: Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods

Poetry / 13 Aug

Andrew Motion: His impressive 2006 memoir In the Blood followed 12 years later by this verse sequence detailing the same traumatic event and its aftermath.

Reviewed: Essex Clay by Andrew Motion

Poetry / 31 Jul

Poem Of The Week: An Ode to the World Cup

Poetry / 13 Jul

Seamus Heaney's family on his life and legacy

Poetry / 05 Jul

Gerald Dawe

The Wrong Country by Gerald Dawe - read an extract

John O'Donnell: intimate but at the right remove

Sunlight: New and Selected Poems by John O' Donnell

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

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