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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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Original music by Matthew Keating
Introduced and co-produced by Lisa Downey

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The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Halloween! - Frankenstein, Vampires and Shirley Jackson

November 02, 2025

OK fair, we are a few days late, but keep the skeletons out for a bit longer as we bring you our Halloween special!

Frankenstein, Dracula, the Rock DJ video where we strips his skin off, we leave no tombstone unturned as we take you to the darkest corners of horror with a few poems in the couldron thrown in

The podcast builds up to Leon reading one of popular culture’s most terrifying short stories ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson. We’re sorry in advance.

We’re current accepting submissions to our second anthology collection so email your poems to thepoetrysdeadpodcast@gmail.com. Deadline November 14th - 40 lines max per poem

Enjoy the podcast…BOO!

Ryan and Leon

Poems from the show

Vincent Price - The Thriller

https://youtu.be/bfREGjSHD1g?si=S48t7XG88RiOM3ho

Suzanne Meehan - Shady

https://www.instagram.com/suzie433?igsh=MXNmc3Bsd3A1N2R6dA==

Conrad Aiken - The Vampire

https://poets.org/poem/vampire

Leon Dunne - The Hotel

https://www.instagram.com/nomanticz?igsh=MXRmNnZ0OGtud2ZwNQ==

Shirley Jackson - The Lottery