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The Poetry Programme

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In the Poetry Programme on 30 January, presenter Rick O’Shea meets Scottish poet Douglas Dunn; Doireann Ní Ghríofa explores poems in Irish; and a poem by Dave Lordan finds a worldwide audience.

In the first of her ‘Féithna Filíochta’ essays for the 2016 series of The Poetry Programme, bilingual poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa considers how poetry deals with grief and brings us two Irish poems by Caitlín Maude and Liam Ó Muirthile in their original form and in translation.

Scottish poet Douglas Dunn has also written powerfully about grief. He reads from his collection ‘Elegies’, written following the death of his first wife, and some more recent work.

When Dave Lordan sent his poem about bullying, ‘Because I’m Human’, out into the world, he had little idea where it was going to end up.

The Poetry Programme: For everyone who loves poetry. And those who just don’t know it yet.

The Poetry Programme is a Rockfinch production for RTÉ Radio 1.

 

 

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