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
Edgar Allen Poe, Benjamin Zephaniah and Parenting
Happy Easter Everyone!
Not that we are going to church or anything, but we have a few days off the rat-race so thank you Jesus and all that were involved for such a gift!
As we mumble through eating our chocolate eggs, we have a ton of lovely stuff on this week's episode.
We tribute the late Benjamin Zephaniah and his work to help those impacted by a true modern British atrocity, the Windrush Scandal
We then go into 'Mr Cheerful' himself Edgar Allen Poe and talk about his brilliance as a poet and storyteller.
We share the stresses of being a budding writer in 2024 through the story of Lee Sheridan, who started his own publishing company in defiance of rejections of his work.
Mikey Cullen then comes through with a much needed vacation poem that we know you're going to love
We end with our Agony Aunt section where we have a disgruntled parent wanting to give their kids a bit of a kick, and we assist with poems from Hollie McNish as well as a poem from Leon himself.
As always, give us a like and a follow and Happy Fecking Easter
Poems from the episode:
Benjamin Zephaniah - People Need People
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/benjamin-zephaniah-people-will-always-need-people
Edgar Allen Poe - A Dream Within A Dream
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52829/a-dream-within-a-dream
Lee Sheridan - The Place To Be
https://www.writing.ie/member-authors/lee-sheridan/
Mikey Cullen - Elysium
Instagram - @mikey___cullen
Hollie McNish - Do You Remember?
https://holliepoetry.com/2015/09/17/nobody-told-me/
Leon Dunne - The Shed
Instagram - @nomanticz
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
