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The Poetry's Dead Podcast Ryan Duggins and Leon Dunne
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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 DublinLeon Dunne is a spoken word artist and cornerstone of the poetry scene in Ireland. He is the 202 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 libraryBoth of them are more fun than these descriptions would have you believeGive us a follow, leave us a review, send this to your Ma' and join us :)Original music by Matthew KeatingIntroduced and co-produced by Lisa Downey
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Kae Tempest, Sylvia Plath And Stag Parties
Oh we bloody missed you, and we hope a few of you missed us too!We're back with a bang or two as we share stories of stag parties, proposals and ask the question that everyone is asking. How depressing is it to be a poet?We talk about the magic of Kae Tempest, and the way she twists words around sound like nobody else.Sylvia Plath makes her debut on the show with her tragic but beautiful poem 'Sheep In Fog', which leads us to look at other geniuses who tended to lose their own minds too.Phil ...
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Oscar Wilde, Dylan Thomas And Taylor Swift
We are finally showing just how basic we both are with this latest episode guys, so be warned!We've been putting Oscar WIlde on the back burner since the show launched, but today's the day we give him a proper segment with a journey around his one-liners, plays, fictional works and poetry. A little moan about Dylan Thomas being a bit 'up himself' doesn't get in the way of us gagging to share one of our most favourite poems ever published, and thank Taylor Swift for mentioning him in the ...
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Pam Ayres, Charity Shop Books And Staying On The Right Path
This. One. Was. FunWe parade around the fun and freeing mind of Pam Ayres, as she gives us a lovely spring in our steps with her warm and giggly poetry.We share some tips on getting back into reading, and our love of spending time in charity shops and picking up a book for a euro.David Hynes comes in with his Perfectly Polished Poem flooded with P's like an overflowing pub urinal of poetry.Our agony aunt is all about how to to stay on the right track, and finding out what that track is.We als...
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Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy And Skipping Meals By Accident
Another episode with the lads yapping on about poems just for your enjoyment!This one, we challenge some preconceptions that can sit in front of poets by talking about the whole Poet Laurete role and share some of Carol Ann Duffy's work.We delve into the muddy fields of Seamus Heaney next, one of Ireland's most celebrate modern poets of our time. Who Ryan doesn't really get. Daragh Fleming and Jessie Floods are our homegrown choices this week. Both beautiful writers, and we've handpicked...
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Emily Dickinson, Harry Baker And A Tribute To Paddy Downey
A special PACKED episode for you after a short break which we are very excited to share.We pay tribute to our own Paddy Downey, who not only created the logo for our show, but was also a poet himself. We heard the incredibly sad news that Paddy had passed a few weeks ago, so we asked his daughter Lisa (who is the voice of our show's intro) to come on and talk about her dad, which she did beautifully.After a touching start, we talk about Emily Dickinson as a influence on society even if she wa...
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Edgar Allen Poe, Benjamin Zephaniah and Parenting
Happy Easter Everyone!Not that we are going to church or anything, but we have a few days off the rat-race so thank you Jesus and all that were involved for such a gift! As we mumble through eating our chocolate eggs, we have a ton of lovely stuff on this week's episode.We tribute the late Benjamin Zephaniah and his work to help those impacted by a true modern British atrocity, the Windrush ScandalWe then go into 'Mr Cheerful' himself Edgar Allen Poe and talk about his brilliance as a po...
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