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
The Poetry's Dead Podcast Halloween Special
For all the men over 30 who listen to the show, we apologise for the intro music.
It's Halloween though, so we had to scare you a little bit and what better way to start the show than with the scariest music ever recorded, the entrance music that wrestler Kane.
Poetry still to this day is hard to come by in popular culture, but The Simpsons in 1991 did something incredible. The creators took Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven' and trusted it to be the centrepiece of their Treehouse Of Horror episode. We wanted to share that this week, narrated by James Earl Jones.
We bounce between ghouls, skeletons, bonfires, murder and throw in a mention of 'THAT' jump scare video where the car drives around the lane. You know the one.
Leon has his own ghost story too that will keep you awake for sure.
If you're in Ireland you'll get this on a bank holiday, so go wash last night's fake blood off that face, go for a walk and take us with you.
(We do not own the rights of any content shared on the podcast)
Poems from the show:
The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe
Taken from The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror 1991
Porphyria's Lover - Robert Browning
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46313/porphyrias-lover
The Visitor - Ian Serallier
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p011lgcd
Suzanne Meehan - The Gurrier's Rite
Instagram - @suzie433
Mary Karr - Field Of Skulls
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43134/field-of-skulls
Theresa McCormack - If I Was A Ghost
Instagram - @theworldaccordingtot
Leon Dunne - A Ghost Story
Instagram - @nomanticz
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
