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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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The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Oasis In Dublin And Poetry At Electric Picnic

August 25, 2025 • Ryan Duggins and Leon Dunne

This podcast is an absolute must listen if you were lucky enough to be at the Oasis concert last weekend at Croke Park. Leon was there, and spends a lot of this podcast gushing over Liam and Noel Gallagher, which we should all be here for.

We look then to the Glastonbury of Ireland, Electric Picnic which kicks off August 29th. We take the best poetry of the festival and give you a peak into what is coming at The Word stage this year.

We also have Jan Brierton on, sharing the schedule for the Manifesto stage which includes Roisin Ingle and Rosie O'Donnell. Crazy.

Thanks again to everyone new to the podcast. If you like the show, we'd really appreciate you shouting about it, both offline and online ideally!

Roll on the picnic

Ryan and Leon

Poetry from today

Noel Gallagher and John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37QUUwp9xIs

Dave Hynes - Motley Crew

https://www.poetryireland.ie/education/writers-directory/david-hynes

Hollie Hughes - Stop The Feeling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z95NleyqPg

Kate Dempsey - Mash