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Pollen

A poignant reading of Moya Cannon's poem.

Video Love Nature Covid-19

Let No Love Poem Ever come to this Threshold

Eavan Boland's poem 'Quarantine' addresses the horrors of the Irish famine of the 1840s through the tragic story of a husband and wife, and their final hours.

Poetry Poetry Famine Grief

Old and Tough / As love

Moya Cannon reads her poem 'Pollen' in which she describes the powdery grain as 'old and tough / as love'.

Poetry Poetry Nature Storytelling

Lowering the Heart Rate

A Mind at Work

Anne Enright on how writing consumes her life, on moving beyond comprehension reading Ulysses, and feeling the 'pang of loss' when a piece of writing is finished.

Podcast Writing Grief Authorship

On Pollution

Across two prescient articles from her Long Distance columns, Kate O'Brien writes about hygiene, pollution, packaging and biodiversity loss.

Reading Biodiversity Environment Writing

Still

Words Lightly Spoken

Ailbhe Darcy ruminates on motherhood, childrearing and a smothering plant beloved by some but hated by others.

Poetry Women Poetry Families

The Gravity Wave

Words Lightly Spoken

Peter Sirr on how the violent collisions of black holes in space translate into a love poem.

Podcast Non-Fiction Poetry Love

Back Up Quick They're Hippies

Words Lightly Spoken

Lani O'Hanlon recalls a hairy situation as her parents mistakenly pull into a hippy commune while on holiday in the South-West of England.

Poetry Poetry Playful Travel

Espero

Words Lightly Spoken

Poet Erin Fornoff reflects on the plight of undocumented citizens.

Poetry Poetry Migration Language

Filleadh ón Antartach

Words Lightly Spoken

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh's poem tells a story of a man who travels to Antarctica only to fall in love with the sound of the ice and its landscape.

Podcast Gaeilge Poetry Nature

Twine

Words Lightly Spoken

While clearing out space beneath the stairs of his mother’s house, Gerald Dawe comes across an inanimate household item which sparks a flurry of memories back to a previous life.

Podcast Childhood Families Playful

A Sonnet for Michael Viney

Words Lightly Spoken

Words Lightly Spoken, a podcast about poetry from Ireland, is a Rockfinch production, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Poetry Nature Friendship Poetry

Our Lady of Cúm a' Chiste

Words Lightly Spoken

Inspired by his two-year-old grandson, Paddy Bushe recalls a bygone Ireland, full of prayer flags, ritual and Marian Year statues.

Poetry Religion Tradition Poetry

To the Management

Words Lightly Spoken

Inspired by the 2,000-year-old Roman poet, Horace, John McAuliffe has found beauty in the mundanity of University administration.

Poetry Poetry Playful History