Bernard O’Donoghue and Moya Cannon with my Music by Kathleen Loughnane

Cork, and still spends part of the year there. Since 1965 he has lived in Oxford, where he taught Medieval English literature and Irish poetry at Wadham College. Bernard has published eight volumes of poems, the most recent being The Seasons of Cullen Church (Faber 2016). He is working on an edition of the Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney.

Moya Cannon is an Irish poet with seven published collections, the most recent being Bunting’s Honey (Carcanet, 2025). The mountains, the shoreline and our primal and enduring responses to the beauty of the endangered earth are the inspiration for many of her poems. Archaeology and geology figure too as gateways to deeper understanding of our mysterious relationship with the natural world and our past.

With music by one of Ireland’s most renowned harpists Kathleen Loughnane.