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
Pat Ingoldsby, Eavan Boland and The Irish Leaving Cert
The Poetry’s Dead Podcast x Leaving Cert Special!
Well. Kind of. We couldn’t do a whole bloody show about it, that would be as dull as doing the actually exams.
But! We’ve got a few leaving cert stories from Leon, poetry from Eavan Boland @eavanbolandpoetry (anyone over 22 that just got a shot of PTSD, don’t worry, you don’t have to do the leaving cert again) and the defining poem of this apparently life defining time called Leaving Cert from Leon himself
We get a reminder of the how fun running can be with Josefin Anna Friberg @josefinlequeen, feel the disappointment of opening a biscuit tin and finding bloody knitting equipment with the help of Eva Mary Lucy @evamarylucy and a very special segment on Irelands only, current living mythical being and wizard, the incredible Pat Ingoldsby (thanks to @seanwatmorepoetry) for his help on this one.
We also give a nudge about our poetry competition running in association with @the_poetryedit, head over to their page for all the info ❤️
Released on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and load of other places Monday morning. All the links are up in the bio (including Ryan’s book, our Patreon and the competition so have a gander)
Best of luck to all the amazing students across the next two weeks, and give us a listen yis belters
Poems from the show
Josefin Anna Friberg - Runners High
Instagram - @josefinlequeen
Pat Ingoldsby - Welcome To Our Woe
https://winding-stair-bookshop.myshopify.com/products/poems-so-fresh-and-so-new-yahoo-by-pat-ingoldsby?_pos=9&_sid=3e6ca9bfb&_ss=r
Eavan Boland - The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-black-lace-fan-my-mother-gave-me
Eva Mary Lucy - The Biscuit Tin
Instagram - @evamarylucy
Leon Dunne - Leaving Cert
Instagram - @nomanticz
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey