Today's programme is a special edition of Arts Tonight, recorded recently in the RTÉ Radio Centre to mark the 40th birthday of The Gallery Press.
Vincent Woods was joined by poets Vona Groarke, Michael Coady, Peter Sirr, Medbh McGuckian, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Muldoon and Gerry Dawe,as well as playwright Jim Nolan and poet and founder of The Gallery Press, Peter Fallon.
(Front row from left to right- Michael Coady, Vincent Woods, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Vona Groarke, Medbh McGuckian, Jim Nolan
Left to right- back row- Peter Fallon, Peter Sirr, Gerry Dawe, Paul Muldoon)
All poems reproduced here and in the podcast are done so with the kind permission of The Gallery Press. For full details on all their publications you can go to www.gallerypress.com
*****Apart from this special programme, in our usual 10pm slot, you have another chance to hear a programme which was first broadcast last September. In this show, Paul Auster talks about his love of the writings of Samuel Beckett. Auster was in Dublin as a guest of the inaugural 'Mountains to the Sea Festival' in Dun Laoghaire. And Billy Ó hAnluain marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark jazz album, 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis. For full details on this programme, please see the entry for September 14th 2009.