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
Understanding Masculinity Through Poetry
Understanding Masculinity Through Poetry
Well, we give it a go anyway and thank the fecking lord we have poetry to help us. We’re share a piece from ourselves as well as work from Simon Armitage, Ursula Walshe and Hayley Gordon
Want to say a massive thank you to everyone we met in Liverpool this weekend. Everyone was so sound, what a night the Giz A Word girls Hayley and Rachel run.
Enjoy the podcast and have a whopper Bank Holiday!
Poems from the pod:
Simon Armitage - I Am Very Bothered
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/i-am-very-bothered
Hayley Gordon - Home
https://www.instagram.com/twistedtales.hlg19/
Ursula Walshe - The Forgotten Graffiti Of Adolescent Masculinity
Ryan Duggins - Do Not Judge The Man Reading Jordan Peterson On A Bus
https://www.instagram.com/ryanduggins/reels/
Leon Dunne - Let’s Talk About Masculinity
https://www.poetryireland.ie/education/writers-directory/leon-dunne
Music from Lisa Knapp And Gerry Diver
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
