Enda Wyley
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465 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2d ago
Enda Wyley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Actually, the first poet that I'm going to bring in today, because we're talking about summer poetry, isn't that right, Brendan?
Yeah.
Is a poet called Moya Cannon.
And actually, she won that same prize back in 2001.
So it's nice to follow on from poets like her, but...
She's from Donegal.
She's from up around Dunfanaghy Way.
Lots of lovely beaches up there.
And because it was such a hot week, wasn't it?
When I was looking at poems about summer, I thought, Alec, I have to read this poem about jumping into the sea.
So would you like to hear it?
OK, here we go.
So it's called This Morning by Moya Cannon.
This morning by the sun-bashed sea, in which I have swum for 10 minutes, I feel younger than when I was young, in spite of my 66 circuits of the sun.
I have done nothing to earn joy or health, yet today I'm flooded with both.
I want to bottle this morning in a song so that some hail-smitten, hope-poor winter's day, it can be poured out, sun on salted pebbles and on me, a flutter swoop of sand martins and the whispers of a June sea.
Actually, it's a beautiful place and see all about in that book.
So it's a beautiful book to read Bunting's Honey.
I absolutely love Cavanagh as a poet and I live near the canal and I pass him every day and I love the way Irish people always you know might put a bunch of flowers on his lap or paint his shoes red like there's always a nod to Cavanagh at the bench there and every Paddy's Day a bunch of poets we always go and we read a few poems there
And by the bench as well, which is a very nice thing to do.
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