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
Talking Gargoyles, Partying In World War 2 Berlin And Being Inspired By Young Poets
Our last podcast was our 50th show lads. 50! Mad.
On Monday, we have a load of poems and stories for, starting with some info about our live podcast at Swords Castle next Saturday with Wavin Words where there’s also a young poets slam for anyone between 14-18 years of age. If you know of a future world champion slam poet, bring them.
Speaking of being inspired by young people, thanks to Katriona O'Sullivan sharing a post a few weeks back, we have poetry from Reece, who penned a powerful poem about the pre-conceptions he faces from the reputation of where he’s from.
We were incredibly moved and got in touch with his teacher Nadine who sent us the story of the poem's creation and what it’s like to teach poetry in schools. She also pushed Reece to recite the poem for us, incredible.
We have poems from Clonakilty’s own James Harpur, Dara Clear from @theclearoutpodcast and music from Derry’s own ‘James-Arthur-but-better’ Conor McLain @cmclainmusic
Congrats Conor on killing it at Whelans last night and best of luck on the rest of your tour
Hope to see you at Swords Castle for our live podcast!
Poems from the show
Dara Clear - Time
https://shows.acast.com/theclearout
Reece - Labelled
James Harpur - Poem
https://eblanapress.com/
Fritz Von Ostini - We Snort And We Inject
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2016/11/nazis-drugs-how-kick-crystal-meth-powered-blitzkrieg
Music from Conor McLain - Adored By You
https://open.spotify.com/track/1DHTO5w62FnC6jx1zirAwC
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
