The Poetry's Dead Podcast
Ryan and Leon are delighted to bring you your NEW favourite poetry podcast, exploring the work of poets old and new, with a little bit of craic mixed in.
We'll share our love of poetry every week, taking you on a journey through work from poets you'll have heard of, as well as poets you may not have heard of and even people you had no idea wrote poetry.!
We'll also help with our Agony Poet part of the show where we'll accept any challenge of solving a problem with a poem. Nothing is too trivial or too serious.
Ryan Duggins is a published English poet based in Dublin, with work found in journals Dreich, Flare and his first collection 'You're Never Too Old To Know Better' was published in April '23. He's also performed at Electric Picnic and is a regular on the open mic scene in Dublin
Leon Dunne is a spoken word artist and cornerstone of the poetry scene in Ireland. He is the 2022 All Ireland Poetry Slam Champion and co-founder of Rising Tide, an events company hosting the best spoken word performers the country has to offer out of Pearse Street library
Both of them are more fun than these descriptions would have you believe
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Original music by Matthew Keating
Introduced and co-produced by Lisa Downey
The Poetry's Dead Podcast
Whitney Hanson, Kim Kardashian and Reality Television
Wake up slowly on this Bank Holiday Monday (here in Ireland) my child and allow us to soothe you back into life with another fun episode of The Poetry's Dead Podcast!
We whizz around every conversational topic known to man on this one like two ADHD teenagers having their first pint, and we had a great time with it.
Our patreon community's first featured poem on the show comes from Fin Brennan, sharing his poem of affection to his pals with the poem 'Both My Friends Are Scientists'.
Our first non-native speaking poet on the show comes in the form of Juan De Dios Peza who explains to us how everything is not always what it seems when people pretend they are doing great. His poem is called Reir Llorando, or 'To Laugh While Crying' for most of us.
The incredible Whitney Hanson, with 3 books published at just 22 years old, helps us through grief with her poetry collection Harmony, a friend in need for millions of people already. We talk about TikTok as a platform for creatives too, and throw aside any of the old brigade of snobs that my poo-poo poets like Hanson.
Jo Spivey takes us back to 'Madchester' in the 90's with his tribute to rave culture titled 'There Used To Be A Rave There', which then leads us to the story of how the song DARE by The Gorillaz became DARE and not THERE thanks to Shaun Ryder.
Adele Leahy brings some necessary craic (quite literally) with a poem of sympathy for the owner of, probably, the most famous bum on the planet with 'Kim Kardashian's Arse'
We reveal the details of our poetry competition at the end of the show where we are teaming up with the team at The Poetry Edit (Instagram @the_poetryedit) to run a poetry competition with a chance of being featured on the show, which who knows, might lead to bigger stuff. We're massive in Sweden, don't you know!
Thanks as always for your love and support, and have a belter of a Bank Holiday Monday.
Ryan and Leon
The Poetry's Dead Podcast
Poems from the show:
Fin Brennan - Both My Friends Are Scientsists
Instagram - finbrennanpoetry
Juan De Dios Peza - Reir Llorando
https://aliciamblair.squarespace.com/work/2016/8/17/rer-llorando-by-juan-de-dios-peza
Whitney Hanson - Harmony
https://www.easons.com/harmony-whitney-hanson-9781529432633
Jo Spivey - There Used To Be A Rave There
Instagram - joe_spivey
Adele Leahy - Kim Kardashian's Arse
Instagram - adele_leahy
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey