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
The Poetry's Dead Podcast
Tristram Fane Saunders, Poetry in Liverpool And The Hillsborough Disaster
Tristram Fane Saunders, Poetry In Liverpool And The Hillsborough Disaster
This week, we look back on our incredible weekend in Liverpool hosted by Rachel and Hayley at Giz A Word (Instagram @gizaword.collective) where we met some of the city’s creatives and got a taste of what Liverpool is all about. Spoiler: Karaoke and non-stop craic
Instagram handles of the lovely folk in question:
@racheywilts @twistedtales.hlg19 @sketchedbyneve @garyharperart @body_confidence22 @petesartpage
On a walk through the city, we stumbled on the Hillsborough memorial, which had carved into stone a poem by the late David Charters, who worked for the Liverpool Echo as well as offering poetry to the world.
We talk about that awful day in 1989 and share the poem.
We also invited Tristram Fane Saunders onto the podcast this week where we discuss his collection ‘Before We Go Any Further’, his residency at Cambridge and seeing poetry as a friend.
We have a poetry too from Colin Anderson about the young men going to war, and a banger of a track from Roo Elizabeth with her song ‘Bad Dream’
IThanks to everyone for listening to our ‘Understanding Masculinity Through Poetry’ episode, it’s set to be our most popular podcast so far so thank you. If you haven’t listened, then do.
Yup poetry!
Ryan and Leon
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
