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
Albert Camus, Trans Rights And Looking Back At Repeal The 8th
We have pretty much everything covered this week.
We read a note from Albert Camus, a poem written by Easter Rising leader Padraig Pearse about his mother and we have issues pronouncing Hercule Poirot
Lots of beautiful poems are snuck between those bits, but a special highlight is hearing from Jameson Newell.
An American trans man living in Ireland, Jameson opens up on what it’s like living and existing since the trans rights of Americans were revoked this year. Thank you Jameson for sharing your story and poetry
We have belters about a coat pocket, the Irish abortion vote in 2018 and we hear from Agatha Christie who is helping us fill in for the agony aunt this week
Poems from the podcast
Albert Camus - Poem from his notebook (1951-1959)
Padraig Pearse - The Mother
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rising-poems-the-mother-by-patrick-pearse/34382053.html
Robbie Hood - Catholic City
https://www.instagram.com/robbie_hood_poetry?igsh=MXRyd2NienRtbHVzYw==
Jameson Newell - Dandelions
https://www.instagram.com/fuckingaguys?igsh=MTZhZXc0YTk0OTRiZA==
Faye Elizabeth Marshall - St Patricks Day Parade 2019
https://www.instagram.com/fayeelizabethmarshall?igsh=em42Y3M5dWx6bHhh
Agatha Christie - untitled
https://www.agathachristie.com/en/stories/poems
Music from Craig Gallagher - Lonely Eyes
https://open.spotify.com/track/3QjrNYKDMQmPrY5O4QLkO9?si=1W2QdqHuR-usgj4Q3824ow
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
