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
Manchán Magan, Basic Income For Artists And Remembering Our Grannies
We are paying tribute this week to the late writer and researcher of all things Irish, Manchán Magan who has departed our current world for the next one. We talk about his influence on the recent fire under the belly of Irish culture and share a few pages of his book '99 Words For Rain'.
Good news for the artists of Ireland came in the form of the basic income scheme for artists being stamped as permanent. We hear from writers, playwrights and poets on what this news means and the reality of being an artist in Ireland.
We've got a load of Irish sayings courtesy of listenter Theresa McCormack, a circle of life poem from Tanaaz about her own Granny and a banger of a poem from Derek Walcott as a reminder to be kinder to ourselves.
Our Agony Aunt is back helping someone who has a certain itch to scratch. Filthy carry on, really.
Music this week is from Ciaran Lavery who was recently shortlisted for the Northern Ireland Music Prize.
Hopefully see a few of you at the Rising Tide event this Wednesday.
Ryan and Leon
Poems from the show
Mánchan Magan - 99 Words For Rain
https://www.easons.com/ninety-nine-words-for-rain-and-one-for-sun-manchan-magan-9781804583340?srsltid=AfmBOoqb6KOMGIik3tc1OAUqANYGgiHJ3iML-zn-Vz0QUicV1sOZRep4
Derek Walcott - Love After Love
https://allpoetry.com/love-after-love
Leon Dunne - Scars On The Landscape
Tanaaz Kothawalla - Mangoes And Granny
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Agony Aunt - A Man
Music by Ciaran Lavery
https://ciaranlaverymusic.com/
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction by Lisa Downey
Produced by Ryan Duggins
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