This is the fifth episode of the Nature, Wilderness and Wildness series of the podcast.

Francis Harvey was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in 1925 and died in 2014 at the age of 89.

Though born in Northern Ireland, he lived most of his life in County Donegal in the Republic, and was a member of Aosdána, the Irish association that honours artists who have produced distinguished work of genuine originality.

His poem “Heron” won the 1989 Guardian and World Wildlife Fund poetry competition.

You can buy Francis Harvey’s Collected Poems, published by Dedalus Press, here.⁠⁠