Colm T贸ib铆n
The writer Colm T贸ib铆n joins Roger McGough to share some favourite poems and discuss his poetry collection Vinegar Hill.
The writer Colm T贸ib铆n selects some favourite poems from amongst our listeners' requests and recommendations. His picks include poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Thom Gunn, Maura Dooley, Victoria Kennefick and Anthony Cronin.
Colm T贸ib铆n is the author of ten novels - including Brooklyn, The Magician and The Master. He published his first poetry collection, Vinegar Hill, in spring 2022.
With special thanks to RT脡 Archives for their recording of Se谩n Mac R茅amoinn's reading of The Two Travellers by CJ Boland, and to the Irish Poetry Reading Archive in UCD Library for their kind permission to use their recording of Anthony Cronin reading his poem 'For a Father'.
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This Week's Poems
鈥楽别辫迟别尘产别谤鈥�
By Colm T贸ib铆n
From: Vinegar Hill
Published by: Carcanet
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鈥楾he Armadillo鈥�
By Elizabeth Bishop
From: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters
Published by: Library of America
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鈥楾he Two Travellers鈥�
By C.J. Boland
Archive recording used with permission of RT脡 Archives
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鈥楩or a Father鈥櫶�
By Anthony Cronin
From: New & Selected Poems听听听
Published by: Carcanet
Archive recording used with permission of Irish Poetry Reading Archive in UCD Library
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鈥楲ament for Thomas MacDonagh鈥�
By Francis Ledwidge
From: The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse
Published by: Oxford University Press
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鈥楩谤别颈驳丑迟鈥�
By Maura Dooley
From: Sound Barrier - Poems 1982-2002
Published by: Bloodaxe
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鈥楶aris Syndrome鈥�
By Victoria Kennefick
From: Eat or We Both Starve
Published by: Carcanet
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鈥楾amer & Hawk鈥櫶�
By Thom Gunn
From: Selected Poems 1950-1975
Published by: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979
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