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
John Cooper Clarke, The Late Ann Delaney and Staying Happy
Episode 2. We've had an incredible first date and now we choose to go on that hike...
Uh oh.
In our second episode we gush over 'The Bard of Salford' Dr John Cooper Clarke as well as wind it way back to one of the lesser known Irish poets from yesteryear, James Clarence Mangan
We then tribute the late Ann Delaney, the former nurse who was living homeless in Dublin and passed away on the week we were recording. She was a poet herself, quite beautifully. Ryan and Leon recite their own work as a tribute to the homeless.
We end the show with our Agony Poet answering the question 'Are you happier than are sad?' as we share a lovely poem by Brian Bilston
Again, thanks to everyone who has sent us poems, shared the podcast and been so sound to us about what we're up to.
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Poems from today's episode:
John Cooper Clarke - Bed Blocker Blues
https://www.clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/?p=387
James Clarence Mangan - The Nameless One
http://www.ricorso.net/rx/library/authors/classic/Mangan_JC/Sel_Poems/Nameless.htm
Ryan Duggins - There Is No Problem
Instagram - @ryanduggins
Leon Dunne - Around Town Most Days
Instagram - @nomanticz
Brian Bilston - Serenity Prayer
https://www.lovemydress.net/blog/wedding-readings/serenity-prayer-by-brian-bilston
Ryan and Leon
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey