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Words Softly Spoken: Ruth Carr reads her poem Dorothy's Country

Poetry / 14 Feb

Poem Of The Week: Picking Figs by Anne Tannam

Poetry / 12 Feb

Words Lightly Spoken: Doireann Ní Ghríofa reads While Bleeding

Words Lightly Spoken: Enda Wyley reads The Painter on his Bike

Poetry / 02 Feb

Poem Of The Week: Domínio Vale do Mondego by Roisin Kelly

Poetry / 04 Feb

Seamus Heaney: the chilly boarding school days at St Columb's recalled in his poem Cloistered

Reviewed: The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem

Michael Longley

Words Lightly Spoken - hear a new poem from Michael Longley

Poetry / 24 Jan

Caravaggio's masterpiece The Taking of Christ, the inspiration for Stephen James Smith's poem.

Poem Of The Week: As light between our bodies moves

Poetry / 17 Jan

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

Lyric Feature: What makes a place a home?

The Lyric Feature / 10 Jan

Poem Of The Week: The Boy Who Swapped a Bog for a Gramophone

Poetry / 09 Jan

The Christmas Poetry Programme: Back Row (L to R): Billy Ramsell, Andrew Bennett, Robbie Overson, Front Row (L to R): Eimear Quinn, Colette Bryce, Cathy Belton, Ian Robertson and host Olivia O'Leary

Poetry Programme preview - Christmas words and music

Poetry / 21 Dec 18

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 and poet Ailbhe Darcy

Poetry Programme preview: TS Eliot Prize nominee Ailbhe Darcy

the poetry programme / 13 Dec 18

Christy Moore performs at Sunday Miscellany's 50th anniversary celebrations

In The Picture: Miscellany50 at Project Arts Centre

Culture / 13 Dec 18

Father and son team Bobbie and Steafan Hanvey

Poem Of The Week: From Reconstructions by Steafán & Bobbie Hanvey

Poetry / 06 Dec 18

Natayla O Flaherty, Poetry Programme host Olivia O Leary and Sarah Crossan

Poetry Programme: Sarah Crossan & Natalya O'Flaherty

Poetry / 03 Dec 18

Poem Of The Week: Windharp by John Montague

Poetry / 30 Nov 18

Mystery Train host John Kelly and poet Paula Meehan

Poet Paula Meehan boards the Mystery Train

RTÉ Radio 1 / 26 Nov 18

Mary Costello, Vona Groarke, Poetry Programme host Olivia O'Leary and Julie Feeney

Poetry Programme: Vona Groarke, Mary Costello & more

Poetry / 26 Nov 18

The Poetry Programme: Michael Longley, in his 80th year

the poetry programme / 19 Nov 18

Jessica Traynor: subtle poems steeped in Dublin lore that resist easy accessibility

Review: The Quick by Jessica Traynor

Poetry / 14 Nov 18

Doireann Ní Ghríofa: closely attuned to béaloideas and folklore

Poetry Review: Lies by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Books / 15 Nov 18

Poetry Programme host Olivia O'Leary with Michael Longley

The Poetry Programme celebrates Michael Longley

Poetry / 12 Nov 18

Lúireach Bhríde - a song to celebrate the lives of Irish women

RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards / 07 Nov 18

Poetry Programme host Olivia O'Leary with Don Share

Poetry Programme preview: Don Share & Jane Clarke

Poetry Programme / 02 Nov 18

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