Here is a link to the podcast Words Lightly Spoken which was posted on the RTÉ website yesterday. With thanks to the producer, Claire Cunningham.
In this episode of the new Arts Council-funded podcast Words Lightly Spoken, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh reads her poem Filleadh ón Antartach, and the English translation, Return from Antarctica, by Billy Ramsell, from her collection The Coast Road, published by The Gallery Press.
Really chuffed to be included in the Pocket Poems initiative for Poetry Day this year alongside some wonderful poets. For a list of the poems and commentary by Niall MacMonagle, check out this link.
The weather is still cold enough to justify this post ( I think!)… Back in December I was invited to read at the National Concert Hall in Dublin for the recording of RTE’s Christmas Miscellany. I read the poem ‘Filleadh ón Antartach’ (translated by Billy Ramsell as ‘Return from Antarctica’). It was fantastic to read with such writers as Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Dónal Ryan, John F. Deane, Enda Coyle Green, Pat Boran, Mary O’Malley, Mary Morrissy, John McKenna, Anthony Glavin and Hilary Fanin, and to share a stage with RTE Concert Orchestra. You can listen back here
Máiréad Ní Mhaonaigh and Louis de Paor talk about my poem ‘Filleadh ar an gCathair’ (‘Citybound’) on the Works on RTE1. You can hear what they had to say at this link (available for the next 19 days):
http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10378668/
Rudaí deasa ar fad a deir siad, dar ndóigh!
Seo nasc chuig agallamh a dheineas le Tuairisc.ie faoi mo dhán a bheith ainmnithe ar ghearrliosta RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland.
Here is a link to an interview I did with Tuairisc.ie about the my poem, ‘Filleadh ar an gCathair’, being shortlisted for RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland.
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh 
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