Colm Tóibín
The writer Colm Tóibín joins Roger McGough to share some favourite poems and discuss his poetry collection Vinegar Hill.
The writer Colm Tóibín 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 Tóibín 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 RTÉ Archives for their recording of Seán Mac Réamoinn'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'.
Produced by Mair Bosworth for BBC Audio
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This Week's Poems
‘September’
By Colm Tóibín
From: Vinegar Hill
Published by: Carcanet
‘The Armadillo’
By Elizabeth Bishop
From: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters
Published by: Library of America
‘The Two Travellers’
By C.J. Boland
Archive recording used with permission of RTÉ Archives
‘For a Father’
By Anthony Cronin
From: New & Selected Poems
Published by: Carcanet
Archive recording used with permission of Irish Poetry Reading Archive in UCD Library
‘Lament for Thomas MacDonagh’
By Francis Ledwidge
From: The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse
Published by: Oxford University Press
‘Freight’
By Maura Dooley
From: Sound Barrier - Poems 1982-2002
Published by: Bloodaxe
‘Paris Syndrome’
By Victoria Kennefick
From: Eat or We Both Starve
Published by: Carcanet
‘Tamer & Hawk’
By Thom Gunn
From: Selected Poems 1950-1975
Published by: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979
Broadcasts
- Sun 22 May 202216:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 28 May 202223:30BBC Radio 4
