The Poetry's Dead Podcast

It's taken ages but we've finally stopped sunbathing and watching the World Cup to bring to you the final episode of the series! So many bangers to go through today, but we want to say a special thank you to the writer Katriona O'Sullivan who has recorded 4 poems for us to share on the show this week. We couldn't be more grateful so thank you Katriona, you're a warrior wom...

Few weeks break and we are back with giddyness, giggles and ballads galore! I think you can tell we missed you lot with the amount of absolute nonsense we are spouting on the show this week in between the laughs. We do however bring poems too, with pieces from Dana Gioia, Dostoevsky, Sam Tovey and a returning agony aunt! Enjoy, tell your mates and leave us really sound reviews, g'wan! Ryan an...

In this week’s episode we look at the conflict and tension that comes natural when there is out you like from awful people. Sparked by the new Michael Jackson biopic, we discuss. We also share a poem from Tim Buckley, the father of actor Jessie Buckley, after she talked about her dad’s poems on the Desert Island Discs radio show with Lauren Laverne. A poem from Patti Smith before music by Becca Co...

Poems from the show: Aisling Bonner - Dublin, Oh Dublin (Taken from RTE's 2FM Breakfast Show) Aisling Bonner (@aisling_bon) | TikTok Robert Sheehan - Untitled Poem Robert Sheehan - IMDb Claudine Tierney - Willie Daly, Matchmaker Extraordinaire  Claudine Tierney (@claudine_artist) • Instagram photos and videos James Joyce - Araby (A Short Story) Dubliners - Wikipedia Niamh Be - Busy Intrusive...

This week's show we keep it a little lighter, but I think in doing so we accidentally got a bit macho. Nightmare really. Especially that chat we have about what dog should you aspire to be. That was definitely a toxic conversation lol. Anyway! Poems this week about being sound, being brave, being aware, being alert to the way you show up in the world and we also have a poem about the naivety...

Trigger warning: This episode includes subjects that some listeners might find difficult to listen to, including sexual assault and rape. If you are a long-time listener, you'll know that we like to keep it light. However, we felt after reading the CNN Rape Academy expose that there was a duty to add to the conversation with the help of experts in the field to hopefully raise awareness and, m...

Did you ever think you did something awful as a child that didn't actually happen? Yeah, no, mad to think that's something common and not just you, don't you think? We talk about that today on the podcast after we share a poem that was Nelson Mandela's favourite poem. If you don't know what the Mandela effect is, get ready. We share the full version of T.S Eliot's mas...

The Times' newspaper lost a few subscribers this week after a ridiculous critique of Harry Baker's life show had caused a rightful stir in the poetry community. We talk about the snobbery elitism that hums in the background of the current movement of really sound people performing really powerful words. We're off to Wolverhampton to see Jan Brierton and Henry Normal on tour next wee...

Words That Changed Your Life We opened last week’s show with a clip from Hollywood actor Bill Murray talking about art. He shared a story about how, on his darkest day, he was saved by a painting in a Chicago gallery that gave him the hope he needed to keep going. We thought we’d ask our listeners if they have had a similar experience…and thus, this episode was born. We received some beautiful sto...

We both have been chewing the Louis Theroux 'Manosphere' documentary around in hour mouths for a few days so it was only natural we spend way too much time this week talking about it. Hopefully we add something to the conversation of the world of vulnerable men being taken advantage of with a few honest appraisals of the shit show itself. We do also have poems! Poetry from Woody Harrelso...

Not sure what was in the water this week, but f*** me do we have some awful language in the podcast We celebrate the swearers on this week’s podcast, from Jan Brierton reciting her poem ‘Dear Body’ on The Tommy Tiernan show to Charles Bukowski’s dirty-words ridden story about an orgy in Pasadena. We somehow squeeze in a conversation about Russian literature between the effing and jeffing, as well...

There's not a podcast out there that will cover both Shakespeare and the bliss of receiving a free bowl of chips at an Irish pub, and that is something we will forever be proud of. Back with a banger where we rant about phone addiction, praise the wild ones and simmer into the beauty of words and the power of them. Poetry from Donna Ashworth, Spoken Word from Kate Ireland, we discuss our favo...

We are back just as the moon is arriving a little later and the garden is whispering to you saying - 'Remember me? - Get that lawn mower!' A little hello from us welcoming you to season 3 of The Poetry's Dead Podcast that returns on Monday and will be with you EVERY Monday in 2026! Imagine! Where are you going to put all the poems? We've missed you, and its great to be back. Ry...

Jesus. That year went by fecking quickly, but life tends to slip by when it’s greased up with so many bloody brilliant poems. In our final podcast of the year, we celebrate the winners of our Quillkeeper collaboration that all have won a page in our second anthology that will be out next week! Well done again to DK, Brenna and Katy for bringing absolute fire to us. We have a lovely Christmas poem...

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 t...

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 addictio...

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 storie...

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...

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 st...

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 i...

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...

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 w...

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 Lig...

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 i...

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...