July 2016

1. What does your father do? - Roger McGough (from A Little Aloud). Juliette

2. The Eloquence in the Screaming - Patrick Jones. Ben

3. The Second Coming - WB Yeats. Donald

4. An Avowal - Kathleen Jamie (from The Overhaul). Julia 

5. Overheard in County Sligo - Gillian Clarke. Linda

6. Frost - WH Davies Lorraine

7. Also - Denny Yuson (Vereesh). Nigel

8. A friendship is a fragile thing - Jean Little (from Poems For Oxfam). Carys

9. We Who Are Your Closest Friends - Phlilip Lopate (from Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott). Nicky

10. The Journey - Mary Oliver. Kath

11. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - John Keats. Erin

12. Ode on a Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes - Thomas Gray. Chris

13. Bivouac on a Mountainside - Walt Whitman. Will

March 2016 / St Patrick's Night Celebrations

1. The Peninsula - Seamus Heaney (Selected Poems). Juliette

2. The Outlaw - Seamus Heaney (an early poem). Donald

3. The Song of Wandering Aengus - WB Yeats. Bel

4. Innocence - Patrick Kavanagh. Julie

5. The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me - Eavan Bolan. Richard

6. The Baler - Seamus Heaney (Human Chain). Leona

7. When You Are Old - WB Yeats. Mab

8. My Beloved Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout - Paul Durcan. Johnny

9. Donal Og - Gaelic Folk Song. Richard (Caitlin Maude and Karen Cassey)

RTE A Poem For Ireland / Shortlist