Here's our latest poetry podcast recording, courtesy of PoetCasting.co.uk. The poem – Invoking St Ciaran – is by Maureen Boyle. Maureen Boyle grew up in County Tyrone. She studied at Trinity Collge in Dublin, then the Universities of East Anglia and London. In 2004 she was runner up in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Competition for an unpublished manuscript. She completed a Creative Writing Masters at Queens University, Belfast in 2005. In 2005 and 2007 she was the recipient of awards from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In 2007 she won the Strokestown International Poetry Competition and in the same year was awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Prize. She recently completed a commission for the BBC for a poem to run through a documentary on the Crown Bar which was screened in October 2008. She works as a teacher, writer and childrens bookseller.
