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
St Patrick's Day Special - WB Yeats, Imelda May and Irishness
Get it up ya, lads!
It's our St Patrick's Day special, bringing you all the soothing poetic sounds you're going to need after drowning yourself in stout and singing 'Wild Rover' at least 16 times across the weekend festivities.
Leon kicks us off with the story of Luke Kelly and Patrick Kavanagh's meet which gave us the song Raglan Road
We head back a little to WB Yeats and discuss how the poems we were told to enjoy at school hold us back to really enjoy poetry in later life
Imelda May is giving a bit of a gushing, as well as work from Jeanna Ni Riordan and Stephen Maguire.
We wrap things up with Leon's 'Calling Home', brought together through our lovely listeners sending in what Ireland means to them
This is our love-letter podcast to Ireland and to everyone who holds a special place in their hearts for the Emerald Isle
Poems from the show:
Patrick Kavanagh - On Raglan Road
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-raglan-road/
WB Yeats - The Lover Please With His Friends For Old Friends
https://poets.org/poem/lover-pleads-his-friend-old-friends
Imelda May - Liberty Belle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQrWiGFtHpw
Jeanna Ni Riordan - First Tattoo
Instagram - @jeannaniriordain
Stephen Maguire - Keep Going
Instagram - @thedublinwriter
Leon Dunne - Calling Home
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
