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
Our Agony Aunt Special
Today we celebrate the unsung hero of The Poetry's Dead Podcast, our Agony Aunt.
Since we started the show, our resident helper has been penning poems to support all problems we get sent in by our listeners, so today we are putting them all in one giant, whopper Agony Aunt episode.
Do you have a problem you'd like a poem for? You know what to do! Email us at thepoetrysdeadpodcast@gmail.com or if you click our linktree we have an NGL that you can use to send a message anonymously. Just head over to our instagram @thepoetrysdeadpodcast
Stay sound!
Ryan and Leon and our Agony Aunt
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
