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
Claddagh Records, President Michael D Higgins And A Surprise Poem At Electric Picnic
The President of ireland has a spoken word album
Let us do that one more time for you.
The President of Ireland has a spoken word album.
What a sentence, and you know what, it’s a brilliant piece of work. We discuss the release with chairman of Claddagh Records James Morrissey about the release, spoken word in Ireland and how the project came to be.
If you were at the live podcast of Keep It Light with Deidre O’Kane and Emma Doran at Electric Picnic, you’d have also heard the presidents voice. Well, it was a good impression at least by Lee Sheridan who took to the stage after the conversation between the comedians turned to poetry and that no one can recite a poem off the cuff…or so they thought
We also catch up on our own EP weekend, share the bad poems we forced festival goers to write for us and wrap up the show with Luke Clerkin who was brilliant in his set on the Sunday.
Thanks to all our new followers after James Mooney took one of Ryan’s poems and turned it into something special last week. Stick around and get some poems into ya!
Ryan and Leon
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
