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
David Balfe, Nikita Gill And Sneaky Cats
On today's pod, we celebrate the release of the second album from For Those I Love, as well as hearing Olivia Rodgrido’s advice about poetry being the foundation for all songwriting, which we’d be on board with.
We also dive into the work of Nikita Gill the hidden-in-Instagram-captions genius poetry from Teyindhi Ramsewak and talk about Alice Kinsella’s new collection ‘The Ethics of Cats’
We also share a powerful and completely unique poem about Joan Of Arc by Pip McGough that’ll get your blood pumping before we help a listener problem with our agony aunt section all about feeling misunderstood.
Great to be back and thanks to everyone who listened to last week’s return of the podcast.
In the words of David, go enjoy that good drying
Ryan and Leon
Poems from the show
Alice Kinsella - The Walkout
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0704/1521257-the-ethics-of-cats-alice-kinsellas-new-poems/
Nikita Gill - If You Asked Me How To Live Forever
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7757886.Nikita_Gill
Pip McGough - Joan Delux
Instagram - @manifest_gothic
Tenidhi Ramsewak - If I Leave The House
Instagram - @syllabic_nomad
David Balfe - Of The Sorrows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp-f6cG6rco
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
