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In this episode of the Boundless & Bare podcast Melissa sits down with Quinton O'Reilly for our Improv Comedy special! Quinton discusses the ins and outs of the Irish improv scene and how to break into it.
Keep in touch with Quinton here.
More information on Improv:
Improv Fest Ireland
Tightrope Dublin 
Mob Theater Dublin
Lower The Tone
Stoke Improv
Grand Stretch
UCB Improv
The Second City 
Produced by Willem McCarthy & Melanie O'Donovan
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In this episode, Melissa and Phil discuss his writing journey, influences, ageism and Lingo.

Phil Lynch is an iconic Dublin writer and poet whose work and events for years has inspired the spoken word community. He is a regular performer at poetry and spoken word events and festivals in Ireland, London, Paris, Brussels and New York. Phil is a member of the Dalkey Writers Workshop and  was a runner-up in the iYeats Poetry Competition in 2014  and the winner of the Intercompetitive Poetry Competition in 2018. His work has been featured extensively in Irish Media and his collection "In a Changing Light" has been published by Salmon Poetry. Phil is a co-founder of Lingo the iconic Irish spoken word festival.

In a Changing Light 

Listen to Phil Lynch on Spotify

More on Phil Lynch:

https://artnetdlr.ie/poet-phil-lynch/

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/entertainment/poet-phil-lynch-on-the-open-mic-in-the-living-room-37325248.html

https://artnetdlr.ie/poet-phil-lynch/

Produced by Willem McCarthy & Melanie O'Donovan

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In this episode of the Boundless & Bare podcast Melissa Ridge sits down with Hazel Hogan, a 26 year old poet from Dublin. Hazel Hogan who started when she was ten discusses everything from Grangegorman to her brand new podcast Being Earnest with Hazel Hogan.

Hazel Hogan is a 24 year old poet from Dublin, Ireland.
Her poem ‘Grangegorman’ is on the recommended list to be studied as part of the Junior Certificate English curriculum.
Her poetry was submitted into the Irish Poetry Reading Archive as part of the UCD digital library.
She was selected to take part in the Dublin City of Literature project, Dublin:A Year in Words curated by Stephan James Smith and Linda Devlin and supported by UNESCO.
Hazel is a member of the spoken word and Graffiti collective OutStraight a concept-based show combining spoken word theater with visual art graffiti.
She was the co-founder and the currator of the variety night Words in the Warehouse.
She was recently featured in Episode four of Myles O'Reilly and Donal Dineen 'This Ain't No Disco'.
"Those are some fighting words" Saul Williams.

"A true warrior of words" RTE Culture.

"Powerful stuff" Brenda Donohue, The Ray D’Arcy Show.

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Listen to Being Earnest with Hazel Hogan here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/being-earnest-with-hazel-hogan/id1487890058
http://beingearnestwithhazelhogan.libsyn.com/being-earnest-with-hazel-hogan-0

Echo of Love by Hazel Hogan

Grangegorman by Hazel Hogan

Stories & Strikes by Hazel Hogan

Read more about Hazel and First Fortnight here: 

 

For the halfway point for Season 2 Melissa and Melanie sit down with the acclaimed Raven.

Raven is a multi-disciplinary artist – writer, performer, filmmaker and arts educator originally from San Francisco, California, now living in Dublin.

In addition to being an Emmy award-winning videographer, his written work has appeared in print in the U.S. and Ireland in numerous anthologies, magazines and in his collection, The Living, the Dead and Americans. He is also an acclaimed performer, having captivated audiences as a poet, rapper and actor on stages at literary, music and arts festivals and events in Ireland, the US, South Africa and the UK for twenty years.

As an educator he has taught workshops and courses in poetics, creative writing and filmmaking for even longer; he has worked with children and adults, often with special needs or challenges. He has given private instruction, lectures and taught in diverse settings, in Ireland and abroad – the Junior Certificate School Program (eleven Dublin schools), Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (Dublin), National Institute for Intellectual Disabilities (Trinity College, Dublin), National Council for the Blind in Ireland (Dublin), Creativity Explored (San Francisco), and University of Kwazulu-Natal (Durban, South Africa), amongst others

Ophelia McCabe

Raven & The Crone

Produced by Willem McCarthy

Check out more from Raven Here

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In this episode we sit down with Tari Takavarasha one of the poets who will be joining us on our Sunshine Tantrum tour. In this episode we explore the importance of good mentors, how rhyme and rhythm can shape a poem as well as expression as a mixed race woman.

You can check out more from Tari here.

Tickets to see her on tour are here.

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In this episode we discuss the state of the Irish Spoken Word Industry and it’s longevity with Journalist Paulie Doyle, who recently wrote a piece on Spoken Word in Ireland for the Sunday Business Post.


Thank you to our producer Willem McCartney for recording this podcast. 

Episode Links:

Takin the Mic at The Irish Writers Centre

OutStraight

Tangerine Magazine

A Piece on Insta Poets

National Poetry Writing Month

Rupi Kaur

Billy Childish



If you’d like to hear more from Paulie Visit:

https://twitter.com/BigPaulieDoyle 

https://pauliedoyle.contently.com/ 

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/contributor/paulie-doyle 

https://www.dublininquirer.com/contributors/paulie-doyle 

https://www.businesspost.ie/magazine/lifting-poetry-off-page-439158 

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