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Poetry Programme host Olivia O Leary, with poet Kim Moore

Poetry Programme preview - young British poets speak up

Classical Chinese text of a poem in this new handy pocket-size selection from the work of Li Shangyin

Reviewed: Li Shangyin's shimmering ninth century poems

Watch: Poet Stephen James Smith on the Late Late London Show

Poetry / 15 Oct

Jessica Traynor: "there were other reasons for me to want to play ventriloquist for a host of departed characters"

Writing The Quick: Jessica Traynor on her new poetry collection

Poetry / 13 Oct

Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin

Poem of the Week: Family Law by Annemarie Ní Churreáin

Poetry / 11 Oct

Nick Laird (left) and Theo Dorgan (right) feature in this week's episode of The Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme preview: Nick Laird & Theo Dorgan

Poetry / 28 Sep

Poetry Programme host Olivia O'Leary

Watch: Olivia O'Leary reads a classic W.B. Yeats poem

Poetry / 27 Sep

Watch: Paul Muldoon & Horslips rock Culture Night with RTÉ

Culture Night / 26 Sep

Poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa is John Kelly's guest on this week's special Mystery Train

Listen: Doireann Ní Ghríofa boards the Mystery Train

Poetry / 25 Sep

Poem Of The Week: The Inverse Wave by Pat Boran

Poetry / 19 Sep

Poet and sailor Mick Delap

Tales of Bantry Bay- The Lyric Feature

Rté Lyric Fm / 16 Sep

Poets Pat Boran and Kerry Hardie feature in the first edition of the new series of The Poetry Programme

The Poetry Programme returns - the poems of summer

Poetry / 16 Sep

Poem Of The Week: The High Pyrenees by Kerry Hardie

Poetry / 07 Sep

Poem of the Week: Sisters, by Annemarie Ní Churreáin

Seamus Heaney remembered - classics from the RTÉ Archives

Poetry / 28 Aug

Poem Of The Week: Bread by Moya Cannon

Poetry / 24 Aug

Poem Of The Week: Report by Kerry Hardie

Poetry / 17 Aug

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 Dive

Poetry / 22 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

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