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
Paula Meehan, Brendan Behan And Wanting To Work From Home
We're feeling the spring in our step lads as the days are getting a little longer, and the poems just keep bleedin' coming!
After Brendan Behan's book Confessions Of An Irish Rebel kept Ryan company on a solo trip to Belfast this week, we share a few stories and a tear-jerker poem from a man that we'd all love to share a pint with.
We asked the Dublin Central Library guys if they have any books from Paula Meehan, and they handed us Pillow Talk and we found a beauty all about the changing perspectives we have when we look at our elders.
We have a poem from Beibhinn Thorsch who just released her debut collection 'Libran Liturgy', then we delve into the gay clubs of Dublin where a woman pines and yearns to be able to love her gay best friend, but horses for courses don't allow. A story that goes back to the start of time.
Our Agony Aunt is back and is helping a member of the corporate workforce who would love a few days working from home.
Enjoy, send it to an EX and keep it popping
Poems from the show
Brendan Behan - The Laughing Boy
https://poetscorner.blog/2019/03/20/the-laughing-boy/
Paula Meehan - My Father Perceived As A Vision Of Saint Francis
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-father-perceived-as-a-vision-of-st-francis/
Beibhinn Thorsch - Love With Conjunctions
Instagram - @beibhinnthorsch
Tess McKevitt - I Want A Lavender Marriage
https://www.tessmckevitt.com/
Agony Aunt - Home Office Plea
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
