In the Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm broadcasted at 6 pm on Sunday 9th December 2018, poet John McAuliffe explores the legacy of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and the influence of Spenser’s work on his own poetry.

A few years ago, John wrote a sequence of poems about a journey from England, where he has lived since 2002, and his home country of Ireland. He called his sequence of poems Home, Again, harking back to a poem written over 400 years ago about a mythical shepherd who journeyed from Ireland to England and back, called Colin Clout’s Come Home Againe.

The programme is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of lreland with the Television Licence Fee and RTÉ.