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
Give us a follow, leave us a review, send this to your Ma' and join us :)
Original music by Matthew Keating
Introduced and co-produced by Lisa Downey
The Poetry's Dead Podcast
Mary Shelley, Lord Byron And A Tribute to James Earl Jones
If you were born before 1995, you'd have felt the loss of James Earl Jones.
The father of our childhood and the king of the monologue left our world for the next on the day of recording, so we wanted to share his voice on the show. He does a belter of a rendition of a Christina Rossetti poem that we hope you enjoy.
Ryan's been losing his mind over reading Frankenstein for the first time, so we delve into the world of novels that we think we know the story of, but not quite. We also share a Shelley poem, lovely.
Shelley and Lord Byron would have been rubbing shoulders back then, and when Byron wasn't dipping his wick into anything that moves, he did write a poem now and again. We share one on the show.
Polina Cosgrave then gives us a solid reminder of what to watch out for when picking a potential lover with her poem 'Don't Make Love To Them If They Don't Dance'
We wrap up the show with one of our favourite listener poems with the words of Nicola Clare. You're gonna love this one.
As always, thanks again to everyone who listens and share the show with their pals. If you do share the show, let us know asap so we can gush over you.
Poems from the show:
A Birthday - Christina Rosetti
https://www.bbc.co.uk/poetryseason/poems/a_birthday.shtml
Mary Shelley - Oh Listen While I Sing To Thee
https://www.best-poems.net/mary-shelley/oh-listen-while-i-sing-to-thee.html
Lord Byron - So, We'll Go No More a-Roving
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving
Polina Cosgrave - Don't Make Love To Them If They Don't Dance
https://gallerypress.com/authors-published-b-the-gallery-press/a-to-f-gallery-authors/polina-cosgrave/
Nicola Clare - Psychiatry Gave Me PTSD
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
