Difficult third series? F*** that! We missed you guys and are delighted to return to your moistened ears as you go on your jog around the park that you hate to help you through another 5k. Or whatever you're up to listening to us, we're very bloody grateful. We have had a lovely few months off, so lots to fill you in on. From poems in English village pubs to bopping to The Fleadh. As for poems, we've both been writing a ton so have some poems to share, as well as poems from the competit...
It was sunny. There were beers. But, most importantly, there were poems! We spent the weekend bumping between music tents and food vans down at Beyond The Pale Festival, hosted in 'The Garden Of Ireland' Glendalough, County Wicklow Amongst a backdrop of pretty landscapes were the two fellas, a microphone and their poems. We grabbed anyone we could to share their love of poetry, and have some great stuff for you on our first on-location show. We have conversations with Seanchoiche's very ow...
This one is a little loose people, so get ready! Reason being: The sun was shining and we enjoyed a few garggles before going into the world of poetry this week, so if you fancy grabbing yourself a scoop before you listen, you'd be absolutely so welcome. Speaking of enjoying yourself, we start the show with the iconic 'stand and stare' line from the poem 'Leisure' by W.H Davies. You have to enjoy yourself people, and the Welsha 'supertramp' makes sure we know it. Weirdly, pirate life gets ...
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 hand...
Well, well! It was a long week after St Patrick's Day weekend ladies and gentlemen, but we have climbed out of our beds finally to bring you a fresh new episode This week, Leon delivers on his promise of blowing Ryan's mind with a James Joyce love letter. Just...wow. We climb into the world of Brendan Behan for a little bit before we talk about Jan Brierton's new collection 'Everyone Is A Poem' and how her work has captured the mood of of the Irish people (especially the mammies.) W...
Get it up ya, lads! It's our St Patrick's Day special, bringing you all the soothing poetic sounds you're going to need after drowning yourself in stout and singing 'Wild Rover' at least 16 times across the weekend festivities. Leon kicks us off with the story of Luke Kelly and Patrick Kavanagh's meet which gave us the song Raglan Road We head back a little to WB Yeats and discuss how the poems we were told to enjoy at school hold us back to really enjoy poetry in later life Imelda ...
Episode 2. We've had an incredible first date and now we choose to go on that hike... Uh oh. In our second episode we gush over 'The Bard of Salford' Dr John Cooper Clarke as well as wind it way back to one of the lesser known Irish poets from yesteryear, James Clarence Mangan We then tribute the late Ann Delaney, the former nurse who was living homeless in Dublin and passed away on the week we were recording. She was a poet herself, quite beautifully. Ryan and Leon recite their own ...
The teasing is over. The flirting is done. Time to grab the coats and hail down a cab. Welcome to the first full episode of The Poetry's Dead Podcast. In episode one, we kick things off by sharing our thoughts and love for two of the greats, Maya Angelou and Charles Bukowski. We had to have the big cynic in episode one. We then share a piece from Irish writer Seán Watmore, as well as a treat of a love poem from Mumbles Poet. We wrap it up (so to speak) with the proof that a poem can solve...
A warm welcome to the introduction episode of The Poetry's Dead Podcast with Dublin poets Ryan Duggins and Leon Dunne. You are very welcome indeed to our cool corner of spoken word and poetry hidden at the back of the pub where the locals aren't interested in joining in. Join Ryan and Leon on a short exploration into how poetry became such a big bloody deal in their lives, and why they are bothering with a whole never-ending podcast series about the worst topic in English class. ...
Alright, alright, alright...it was too tempting to type so leave us alone. How else do you expect us to start this podcast description when we're celebrating the poetry of Matthew McConaughey? Exactly. There are many poems we could have shared from his new books 'Poems and Prayers' but we went with Tips Included. Its a 2 hour listen to complete the audiobook, so create some space in your week and listen to his new book on Spotify asap. After a week in Benalmadena, Ryan came home to Irel...
We have a chonky boy of an episode for you this week! Due to the magical powers of our sound man, the wonderful Finn O'Reilly (@finnreuben), we present to you our Culture Night episode recorded live at The LAB in Dublin. This episode is an absolute banger, where we cover everything from poetry, comedy, storytelling and music ( interpretive dance doesn't transfer over to audio very well sadly). First up we have the amazing Aoife Dunne (@aoife_is-never_dunne) who opens up our show ...
We don't agree with CMAT, even though we love her. We think Larkin would have been her biggest fan. Not yet discussed on the podcast, we share Aubade one of Larkin's masterpieces. We then talk about that ability of turning the mundane into art a lot on today's show. We also talk about men, and the value of the stories of men. We also talk about the almost zero value in male advice without a story. Leon reads out a piece from Ernest Hemingway that hammers home the violence and devastating mani...
The President of ireland has a spoken word album Let us do that one more time for you. The President of Ireland has a spoken word album. What a sentence, and you know what, it’s a brilliant piece of work. We discuss the release with chairman of Claddagh Records James Morrissey about the release, spoken word in Ireland and how the project came to be. If you were at the live podcast of Keep It Light with Deidre O’Kane and Emma Doran at Electric Picnic, you’d have also heard the pr...
This podcast is an absolute must listen if you were lucky enough to be at the Oasis concert last weekend at Croke Park. Leon was there, and spends a lot of this podcast gushing over Liam and Noel Gallagher, which we should all be here for. We look then to the Glastonbury of Ireland, Electric Picnic which kicks off August 29th. We take the best poetry of the festival and give you a peak into what is coming at The Word stage this year. We also have Jan Brierton on, sharing the schedule fo...
On today's pod, we celebrate the release of the second album from For Those I Love, as well as hearing Olivia Rodgrido’s advice about poetry being the foundation for all songwriting, which we’d be on board with. We also dive into the work of Nikita Gill the hidden-in-Instagram-captions genius poetry from Teyindhi Ramsewak and talk about Alice Kinsella’s new collection ‘The Ethics of Cats’ We also share a powerful and completely unique poem about Joan Of Arc by Pip McGough that’ll get your b...
Our last podcast was our 50th show lads. 50! Mad. On Monday, we have a load of poems and stories for, starting with some info about our live podcast at Swords Castle next Saturday with Wavin Words where there’s also a young poets slam for anyone between 14-18 years of age. If you know of a future world champion slam poet, bring them. Speaking of being inspired by young people, thanks to Katriona O'Sullivan sharing a post a few weeks back, we have poetry from Reece, who penned a powerful poe...
We’re back not with a bang lads, but a SLAM! We were at the International Literature Festival Dublin this week as Leon hosted this year’s Slamovision with @rising.tide.events The place was packed, and the performances on the night were insane. A night where artists stepped up one-after-another to tell stories that need to be told from voices that needed to be heard. We were able to grab a chat with the winner Cat Brogan @cat.brogan who shivered with us and had a chin wag about poetry and l...
Tristram Fane Saunders, Poetry In Liverpool And The Hillsborough Disaster This week, we look back on our incredible weekend in Liverpool hosted by Rachel and Hayley at Giz A Word (Instagram @gizaword.collective) where we met some of the city’s creatives and got a taste of what Liverpool is all about. Spoiler: Karaoke and non-stop craic Instagram handles of the lovely folk in question: @racheywilts @twistedtales.hlg19 @sketchedbyneve @garyharperart @body_confidence22 @petesartpage&nb...
Understanding Masculinity Through Poetry Well, we give it a go anyway and thank the fecking lord we have poetry to help us. We’re share a piece from ourselves as well as work from Simon Armitage, Ursula Walshe and Hayley Gordon Want to say a massive thank you to everyone we met in Liverpool this weekend. Everyone was so sound, what a night the Giz A Word girls Hayley and Rachel run. Enjoy the podcast and have a whopper Bank Holiday! Poems from the pod: Simon Armitage - I Am Very ...
We have pretty much everything covered this week. We read a note from Albert Camus, a poem written by Easter Rising leader Padraig Pearse about his mother and we have issues pronouncing Hercule Poirot Lots of beautiful poems are snuck between those bits, but a special highlight is hearing from Jameson Newell. An American trans man living in Ireland, Jameson opens up on what it’s like living and existing since the trans rights of Americans were revoked this year. Thank you Jameson for sharin...