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
Shakespeare, Hemingway And Why Do We Write?
You Shall Not Pass...without listening to this episode!
Ian Mckellen and his BBC Radio 2 interview where he discusses the value of remembering Shakespeare's sonnets have pushed us to jump into the brain of Bill Shakespeare and see if we can pick a sonnet each that doesn't give us PTSD of having to study those bloody plays at school
After Ryan took a day off the session with some friends in Germany to read Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, we talk about pro's and con's of Hemingway as an influence on the modern man, but also gush over the quality of his writing and share one of his poems
Andy Porter writes us a lovely email of support and the gift of a poem all about that bloke that can't leave his tools alone.
We also welcome the return of our agony aunt who helps answer a question on how when we write, we judge our own thoughts and experiences. Interesting one this.
Poems from today
William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 25
https://nosweatshakespeare.com/sonnets/25/
Sonnet 55
https://nosweatshakespeare.com/sonnets/55
Ernest Hemingway - Advice To A Son
https://allpoetry.com/Advice-To-A-Son
Andy Porter - Death Of A DIY Man
https://www.tiktok.com/@andyspangles/video/7394401037815254304?lang=en
Agony Aunt - The Imposter
*Introduction clip taken from BBC Radio 2's interview with Ian Mckellen
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
