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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 triv ...
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Oscar Wilde, Dylan Thomas And Taylor Swift
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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' …
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Pam Ayres, Charity Shop Books And Staying On The Right Path
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This. One. Was. Fun We 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…
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Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy And Skipping Meals By Accident
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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.…
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Emily Dickinson, Harry Baker And A Tribute To Paddy Downey
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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…
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Edgar Allen Poe, Benjamin Zephaniah and Parenting
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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…
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Brendan Behan, Jan Brierton And James Joyce's Obsession With Farts
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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…
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St Patrick's Day Special - WB Yeats, Imelda May and Irishness
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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…
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John Cooper Clarke, The Late Ann Delaney and Staying Happy
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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 ho…
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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 I…
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Welcome to The Poetry's Dead Podcast with Ryan Duggins and Leon Dunne
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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 bl…
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