The Poetry's Dead Podcast

The days are the shorter, and we're here to keep you company It's getting colder, but the leaves are looking mighty fine out there so take us with you on that walk this week, but grab a scarf. Georgie Jones gives us a poem this week that paints a picture of a world that we will never see: the feminine power of the women's bathroom. Seems just yesterday that Dublin was practically on...

After a few weeks apart, the boys are back with a drop of malbec and some bleeding whopper poems for you. Anyone who dropped into the Leinster Slam poetry competition last week would have witnessed the power of Cormac Fitz, so it only made sense that we celebrated his win on the show with a poem from the man himself. Rupi Kaur is up next, as Ryan shares the story of when he received her collection...

What a special episode we have for you this week! We have taken the time to throve through the archives to bring you some of the best bits of the podcast to date. So sit back, put the kettle on, and take off those shoes, as you relax into 46 minutes of entertainment gold! Or nonsense.. or both..  Poems from today's episode:  Oscar Wilde - The Ballad Of Reading Goal (an exert) https://www.poet...

Today we celebrate the unsung hero of The Poetry's Dead Podcast, our Agony Aunt. Since we started the show, our resident helper has been penning poems to support all problems we get sent in by our listeners, so today we are putting them all in one giant, whopper Agony Aunt episode. Do you have a problem you'd like a poem for? You know what to do! Email us at thepoetrysdeadpodcast@gmail.c...

If you were born before 1995, you'd have felt the loss of James Earl Jones. The father of our childhood and the king of the monologue left our world for the next on the day of recording, so we wanted to share his voice on the show. He does a belter of a rendition of a Christina Rossetti poem that we hope you enjoy. Ryan's been losing his mind over reading Frankenstein for the first time,...

We know. We agree. Last week was an absolute sausage fest. Too many misters and not enough sisters if you ask us, which is why today's episode we are celebrating the powerful women of the Electric Picnic who had blown us away with their poetry over the festival. We both felt very 'seen' when Tess McKevitt performed her poem all about the red flags and pitfalls of falling for a &apos...

We survived Electric Picnic. Just. As we were doing our best to thrive over the weekend at Ireland's biggest music festival, we also grabbed a few poetry peeps to lend us their ears for a whopper episode of The Poetry's Dead Podcast! Jan Brierton hadn't met Stephen James Smith before their in-conversation chat at the Manifest stage, so we did the honours and hosted their first meet!...

The robots are taking over lads, and they are starting with this podcast! We wanted to see whether or not AI could put together a couple of decent verses, and you know what, we are regretting inviting AI on as it's shown just how bloody easy writing a few verses is.  Before that, inspired by a trip to Paris, we discuss one of France's most iconic raconteurs Marcel Lucont and share his po...

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&apos...

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 school After Ryan took a day off the session with some friends...

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...

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...

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...

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 D...

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 apparen...

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 Br...

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 p...

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 o...

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 P's like an overflowing pub urinal of poetry...

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.  Dara...

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 on and talk about her dad, which she did bea...

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 a true modern British atrocity, the Windrus...

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 'E...

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 Yea...

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 o...