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The Poetry Programme

Olivia O Leary Moya Cannon Image Name: Olivia O Leary Moya Cannon

Back in July, during a month of glorious sunshine, Olivia O’Leary hosted three ‘Heart of Summer’ events, produced by Poetry Ireland (www.poetryireland.ie) in association with the Office of Public Works.

The performances were recorded for the Poetry Programme, and the programme on Sunday 14th October at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1 brings us readings, interviews and music from the ‘Heart of Summer’ event which took place at Glebe House and Gallery in Co Donegal. Olivia’s guests on the night were poets Moya Cannon and Annemarie Ní Churreáin, and music was performed by Kevin Doherty and Michael Keeney.

Moya Cannon has published five collections of poetry, her most recent being Keats Lives (2015) from Carcanet Press. Her poems reflect preoccupations with landscape and seascape, with archaeology, with music, with language itself and with our visceral attachment to the beauty of the earth. She spent her childhood in Co. Donegal, lived in Galway for most of her adult life and now lives in Dublin.

Annemarie Ní Churreáin is from north west Donegal. In 2016, Annemarie was the recipient of a Next Generation Artists Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, and in 2017 she was appointed to the Writers In Prisons Panel, co-funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Justice, Equality and Reform. Her debut collection, Bloodroot, was published by Doire Press in 2017.

The programme will be available to listen back to after broadcast at: https://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-poetry-programme/ and on the RTÉ radio player.