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PODCAST

The Poetry"s Dead Podcast

Ryan Duggins and Leon Dunne

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

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38:42

Muhammad Ali, Emily Brontë And The Importance Of...

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2024/08/05

Because you're there for me toooo, oooohh!Yes ladies and gentleman, we were too worried about copyright law to use the Friends theme song for the intro, but today we are in the feels and talking about the value of friendship.Muhammad Ali, when he wasn't being the best fighter that ever lived, was also a very talented poet and we kick off the show with his poem about friendship. We'll share more of Ali's work down the line, incredibly talented man.Before we get all soppy, we received an Instag...

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42:44

Shakespeare, Hemingway And Why Do We Write?

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2024/07/22

You Shall Not Pass...without listening to this episode!Ian Mckellen and his BBC Radio 2 interview where he discusses the value of remembering Shakespeare's sonnets have pushed us to jump into the brain of Bill Shakespeare and see if we can pick a sonnet each that doesn't give us PTSD of having to study those bloody plays at schoolAfter Ryan took a day off the session with some friends in Germany to read Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, we talk about pro's and con's of Hemingway as ...

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43:56

Kendrick Lamar, Wretch 32 and Emmet O'Brien

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2024/07/15

Yo, dawg! Whattup, homey! Whatcha...geezer?It didn't take us long to to run out of rap slang terms for friend as you can see, but we wanted to get you into the spirit of the show early as this week's episode is a special on rhythm and poetry, or as you lot would know it better as, RAP!We have left the library this week and entered the basement rap battle scene as we explore the work of modern wordsmiths that prefer to have their voices alongside hip-hop beats to give us an easier way to exper...

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40:57

Fontaines D.C, Luke Kelly and The Poetry Edit...

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2024/07/08

And the winner is..On today’s episode, we reveal the winning poem for our competition in collaboration with The Poetry Edit. It’s been incredible to read the pieces that have been submitted, and we can’t wait to share all three finalist’s with you.As well as the competition, we talk about THAT interview between Jools Holland and Grian Chatten as we get a real-life example of how a poet can twist and turn normal folk into knots. And we loved it.Fontaines D.C are one of our favourite bands, and...

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The Poetry's Dead Podcast LIVE at Beyond The Pale

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2024/07/01

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 WicklowAmongst 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 own Dani...

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W.H Davies, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Online Dating

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2024/06/17

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

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42:46

Pat Ingoldsby, Eavan Boland and The Irish Leaving Cert

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2024/06/10

The Poetry’s Dead Podcast x Leaving Cert Special!Well. Kind of. We couldn’t do a whole bloody show about it, that would be as dull as doing the actually exams. But! We’ve got a few leaving cert stories from Leon, poetry from Eavan Boland @eavanbolandpoetry (anyone over 22 that just got a shot of PTSD, don’t worry, you don’t have to do the leaving cert again) and the defining poem of this apparently life defining time called Leaving Cert from Leon himselfWe get a reminder of the how fun r...

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46:36

Whitney Hanson, Kim Kardashian and Reality Television

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2024/06/03

Wake up slowly on this Bank Holiday Monday (here in Ireland) my child and allow us to soothe you back into life with another fun episode of The Poetry's Dead Podcast!We whizz around every conversational topic known to man on this one like two ADHD teenagers having their first pint, and we had a great time with it.Our patreon community's first featured poem on the show comes from Fin Brennan, sharing his poem of affection to his pals with the poem 'Both My Friends Are Scientists'.Our first non...

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51:56

Kae Tempest, Sylvia Plath And Stag Parties

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2024/05/27

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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44:43

Oscar Wilde, Dylan Thomas And Taylor Swift

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2024/05/13

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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47:03

Pam Ayres, Charity Shop Books And Staying On The...

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2024/05/06

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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41:45

Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy And Skipping Meals By...

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2024/04/29

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Emily Dickinson, Harry Baker And A Tribute To Paddy...

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2024/04/22

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33:30

Edgar Allen Poe, Benjamin Zephaniah and Parenting

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2024/04/01

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Brendan Behan, Jan Brierton And James Joyce's...

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2024/03/25

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St Patrick's Day Special - WB Yeats, Imelda May and...

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2024/03/18

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John Cooper Clarke, The Late Ann Delaney and Staying...

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2024/03/11

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28:38

Maya Angelou, Seán Watmore and STI's

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2024/03/01

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Welcome to The Poetry's Dead Podcast with Ryan...

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2024/02/28

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