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
Chris Eubank, Phone Addiction and Poems From Mountjoy Prison
Halloween! - Frankenstein, Vampires and Shirley Jackson
Raising Men's Mental Health Awareness With Movember
Manchán Magan, Basic Income For Artists And Remembering Our Grannies
Matthew McConaughey, Brianna Parkins and A Lesbian Van
Live @ Culture Night Special
Philip Larkin, CMAT and Should We Stop Listening To Men?
Claddagh Records, President Michael D Higgins And A Surprise Poem At Electric Picnic
Oasis In Dublin And Poetry At Electric Picnic
David Balfe, Nikita Gill And Sneaky Cats
Sylvia Plath, The Fleadh & Changing Jobs Too Quickly
Talking Gargoyles, Partying In World War 2 Berlin And Being Inspired By Young Poets
Poetry Slamming At The International Literature Festival Dublin!
Tristram Fane Saunders, Poetry in Liverpool And The Hillsborough Disaster
Understanding Masculinity Through Poetry
Albert Camus, Trans Rights And Looking Back At Repeal The 8th
LUAINA - A New Collection Showcasing Ireland's Best Spoken Word Artists and Poets
Achieving Contentment, Dublin Is Tallaght and Lazy Actors
Andrew Garfield, Disney's Moana And A Love Story In A Dublin Pub
Songwriting Poets feat Jim Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan
Special Guest Interview With Poet Mike Garry - A Conversation Of Wonderment
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