Grace Wells

And on this morning's programme, the scripts were Culture Shock by Jim Culleton The Seal Whisperer by Michael Cullen Pickles by Katrina Bruna Legends was by John Toll The Little People was by John McKenna The Orchid Lovers, a poem by Grace Wells and Dharma, a poem by Billy Collins.

The music was Daydream by Nitin Sane, Silky Song by True, Two Guitars by Zoltan and his Gypsy Ensemble, May We Never Have to Say Goodbye, the athlete's song of the 2003 Special Olympics, composed by Sean Davey and Noel Eccles, performed by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra under David Brophy and featuring Rita Connolly, Ronan Tynan and the Special Olympics Choir.

The Mushroom Tree and The Kid on the Mountain, played by Eimear McGeown on whistle and Donna Hennessy on guitar.

And De Leib's Flower Duet, arranged for piano by Emile Naumoff and played by Lang Lang.

Two of those musical pieces, Selkie Song and The Mushroom Tree, were recorded at a past Miscellany Live at Belfast Book Festival.

Miscellany's next live event is at the La Stole Writers' Week on the 27th of May.

Among the guests, Colm McCann, Jessica Trainor, Enda Wiley and Colm McAnumra.

And while the Miscellany recording is sold out, there are lots of other talks and readings still available to book.

Take a look at writersweek.ie.

Dog Show by Billy Collins is published by Penguin Random House and Billy has been in Ireland recently as a guest of Poetry Ireland.

Sunday Masalini's broadcast coordinator is Elaine Conlon.

The producer is Sarah Binchy.

And you can listen back on the RTE Radio Player app.

Just search for RTE Sunday Masalini.

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This I promise you.

This we did that summer, our lungs full of meadow pollen, the circle of us around a young oak.

We started to thread in and out of each other,

our left hands lifting to touch the left palm of whoever came towards us.