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The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Ryan Duggins and Leon Dunne

63 episodes

8 hours ago

We couldn’t start the podcast any other way than with a poem from Sean Watmore of celebration for the Ireland Football Team getting the job done in Hungary. World Cup 2026? COYBIG! We are so thrilled with the amount of poems that were submitted for the book, especially the many amazing submissions we got as part of the competition with Quilkeeper Press. Nicole Zwolinski didn’t get into the top 3 to win, but we wanted to give a special mention to her and read out her poem Stolen Wishes. We...

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We couldn’t start the podcast any other way than with a poem from Sean Watmore of celebration for the Ireland Football Team getting the job done in Hungary. World Cup 2026? COYBIG! We are so thrilled with the amount of poems that were submitted for the book, especially the many amazing submissions we got as part of the competition with Quilkeeper Press. Nicole Zwolinski didn’t get into the top 3 to win, but we wanted to give a special mention to her and read out her poem Stolen Wishes. We...

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Performing Arts

Episodes (20/63)

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Robert Sheehan, Ireland Beating Hungary And Male Triggers

We couldn’t start the podcast any other way than with a poem from Sean Watmore of celebration for the Ireland Football Team getting the job done in Hungary. World Cup 2026? COYBIG! We are so thrilled with the amount of poems that were submitted for the book, especially the many amazing submissions we got as part of the competition with Quilkeeper Press. Nicole Zwolinski didn’t get into the top 3 to win, but we wanted to give a special mention to her and read out her poem Stolen Wishes. We...

12 hours ago

1 hour 11 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Chris Eubank, Phone Addiction and Poems From Mountjoy Prison

Thanks to everyone who has submitted a poem for us for our 2nd volume of The Poetry's Dead Anthology. Submissions are now closed, and we have over 200 poems to read through to bring you a lovely book perfect for Christmas this year. Today's show we have a lot of beautiful poems for you, along with conversations about poetry really can help turn a life around. We talk about phone addiction, how easy it is to slip into crime and how stories can save you. We would really appreciate it if you do ...

1 week ago

1 hour 1 minute

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Halloween! - Frankenstein, Vampires and Shirley Jackson

OK fair, we are a few days late, but keep the skeletons out for a bit longer as we bring you our Halloween special! Frankenstein, Dracula, the Rock DJ video where we strips his skin off, we leave no tombstone unturned as we take you to the darkest corners of horror with a few poems in the couldron thrown in The podcast builds up to Leon reading one of popular culture’s most terrifying short stories ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson. We’re sorry in advance. We’re current accepting submissions t...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 2 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Raising Men's Mental Health Awareness With Movember

Join us this week for a special men's mental health podcast in collaboration with Movember. It's not easy out there. Juggling responsibilities, craving rest where there is little time, keeping struggles to yourself. Life can be a very difficult thing to navigate, and today's episode we hope to help with some honest chat interwoven between poems from both established voices and new writers sharing gifts to help through darker days. A special thank you to Daragh Fleming who has created a ...

4 weeks ago

1 hour

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Manchán Magan, Basic Income For Artists And Remembering Our Grannies

We are paying tribute this week to the late writer and researcher of all things Irish, Manchán Magan who has departed our current world for the next one. We talk about his influence on the recent fire under the belly of Irish culture and share a few pages of his book '99 Words For Rain'. Good news for the artists of Ireland came in the form of the basic income scheme for artists being stamped as permanent. We hear from writers, playwrights and poets on what this news means and the reality of ...

1 month ago

57 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Matthew McConaughey, Brianna Parkins and A Lesbian Van

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...

1 month ago

48 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Live @ Culture Night Special

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 ...

1 month ago

1 hour 42 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Philip Larkin, CMAT and Should We Stop Listening To Men?

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...

2 months ago

53 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Claddagh Records, President Michael D Higgins And A Surprise Poem At Electric Picnic

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...

2 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Oasis In Dublin And Poetry At Electric Picnic

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...

3 months ago

1 hour 5 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

David Balfe, Nikita Gill And Sneaky Cats

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...

3 months ago

43 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Sylvia Plath, The Fleadh & Changing Jobs Too Quickly

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...

3 months ago

47 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Talking Gargoyles, Partying In World War 2 Berlin And Being Inspired By Young Poets

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...

5 months ago

1 hour 12 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Poetry Slamming At The International Literature Festival Dublin!

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...

6 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Tristram Fane Saunders, Poetry in Liverpool And The Hillsborough Disaster

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...

6 months ago

57 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Understanding Masculinity Through Poetry

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 ...

6 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Albert Camus, Trans Rights And Looking Back At Repeal The 8th

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...

7 months ago

52 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

LUAINA - A New Collection Showcasing Ireland's Best Spoken Word Artists and Poets

A very special podcast this week as we invite Luain Press's Lee Sheridan to discuss his brand new anthology collection Luaina! We were delighted ourselves to be involved in the collection, not just because being published is good craic, but we are alongside some of Ireland's most talented spoken word performers and artists. After Lee attended the book launch of Sean Watmore's debut poetry book, he was inspired by the Dublin poetry scene and the collection of minds and artists in the room supp...

7 months ago

1 hour 1 minute

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Achieving Contentment, Dublin Is Tallaght and Lazy Actors

We go missing a week and we give you over an hours worth of bleeding poetry! We did go on a bit today, but crammed into the corners of our nonsense waffle are poems that will bring us all down to earth a little and focus on what is bloody important in our lives! Thank f*** for poetry! Kate Ireland's spoken word masterclass on sitting with her Granny kicks off the show this week. Be warned: you will get shivers. Leon had been at the helm of the Dublin Is Tallaght event this week at the Civic T...

7 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Andrew Garfield, Disney's Moana And A Love Story In A Dublin Pub

Bloody hell do we have jam packed podcast for you this week guys. We have a love story to kick things off that happened at Mulligans pub on Poolbeg Street that ended at The Cobblestone where a woman from Peru had lost a poem gifted to her by a Welsh traveller. Just when you thought Ireland couldn't get any more fecking romantic! We share the essay published by The New York Times that moved actor Andrew Garfield to tears, how Moai from Moana can be a useful inspiration for depression and share...

7 months ago

56 minutes