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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

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Original music by Matthew Keating
Introduced and co-produced by Lisa Downey

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The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Achieving Contentment, Dublin Is Tallaght and Lazy Actors

April 14, 2025 • Ryan Duggins and Leon Dunne

We go missing a week and we give you over an hours worth of bleeding poetry!

We did go on a bit today, but crammed into the corners of our nonsense waffle are poems that will bring us all down to earth a little and focus on what is bloody important in our lives! Thank f*** for poetry!

Kate Ireland's spoken word masterclass on sitting with her Granny kicks off the show this week. Be warned: you will get shivers.

Leon had been at the helm of the Dublin Is Tallaght event this week at the Civic Theatre, so as a treat for anyone who wasn't able to make it, we have recording from two of the performers from the night: Jan Brierton and Sheila Ryder

Dublin City Libraries, in collaboration with The Stinging Fly, have published a book dedicated to the city of Dublin. We share an essay from the collection from FELISPEAKS called 'Dublin: A Poet's View'. Brilliant stuff.

We also have a giggle with Jonathan Roth, a helping hand from Tania Winther and our agony aunt is all about someone who wrote a play and can't get the actors to turn up on time for rehersal!

Enjoy lads

Ryan and Leon

Poems from the show

Kate Ireland - My Gran Is A Revolutionary

https://www.instagram.com/kate.ireland__

Jonathan Roth - The Doc Yellow Card

https://www.jonathanrothpublications.com/

Sheila Ryder - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (rewrite)

https://sheilaryder.com/

Felispeaks - Dublin, A Poet's View

https://www.instagram.com/felispeaks

Jan Brierton - Being Irish