
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
Episodes
A Tribute To The Great Pat Ingoldsby

Paula Meehan, Brendan Behan And Wanting To Work From Home

Special Guest Episode with Emmet O'Brien At Dublin Central Library

Pamela Anderson, John Cummins and Being Guided By Al Capone

Michael Longley, Anne Waldman and 'Why'D You Only Call Me When You're High?'

Welcome to Series 2 of The Poetry's Dead Podcast With Ryan Duggins And Leon Dunne!

Donna Ashworth, James Mooney and The Victims Of The Stardust Nightclub Fire

Nikita Hand, Ada Limón and Footballers Writing Poetry

Rumi, Christine Anne Foley and Getting Over A Crush

Cillian Murphy, Small Things Like These And The History Of The Irish Church

Paul Muldoon, Movember and Being Addicted To Cheese

Dublin Marathon, The Famine and Being Loved Out Loud

The Poetry's Dead Podcast Halloween Special

Allen Ginsberg, Wedding Poetry and Sharing Friends With Your Ex

Georgie Jones, Sean Walsh and Postnatal Depression

Rupi Kaur, Michelle Bosonnett and Unrequited Love

Now That's What I Call Poetry! The ‘Best Of’ Episode

Our Agony Aunt Special

Mary Shelley, Lord Byron And A Tribute to James Earl Jones

The Queens Of Electric Picnic 2024 and Wendy Cope

Live At Electric Picnic

Kate Bush, Chat GPT And Electric Picnic

Muhammad Ali, Emily Brontë And The Importance Of Friendship
