Mass is in session this week on the podcast with banger poems replacing hymns.Now we've both watched and essentially been shook by the movie Small Things Like These, we get into why that movie hits so hard and wind poetry around the experience of the film to help us understand how to navigate that tricky world of church and religion in Ireland.Before that, as Leon had spent 24 hours in Sligo and Ryan had been watching the show 'Rivals' where rough and ready Declan O'Hara enjoys reciting poetr...

If you're here for the cheese addict, stay 'til the end ;)And if you do, your heart and soul will be filled with a myriad of hopeful poems to bring you through the change in weather as you sniffle your way through the start of winter. We shine a light on men's mental health on the show this week, starting with the Movember campaign that poet Daragh Fleming is an ambassador for. Every day this month he's been sharing poems to raise awareness on men's mental health, and he shares one of hi...

The title is as wide ranging as show this week guys but stick with us!Over 1 million people were on the streets of Dublin last weekend to support the runners taking on the city's marathon, and we think only 800,000 of them were there to perv over Colin Farrell! Leon ran it and has a poem for us.The next day, Ryan went into The Secret Book Store for the first time, picked up a random poetry collection, opened it at a random page when enjoying a pint at Devitts on Camden Street in a journey tha...

For all the men over 30 who listen to the show, we apologise for the intro music.It's Halloween though, so we had to scare you a little bit and what better way to start the show than with the scariest music ever recorded, the entrance music that wrestler Kane.Poetry still to this day is hard to come by in popular culture, but The Simpsons in 1991 did something incredible. The creators took Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven' and trusted it to be the centrepiece of their Treehouse Of Horror episode....

It took 6 months for us to mention the movie 'Dead Poet's Society' so give us a break!On the show this week, we have love, former loves, and all that life offers you in-between so settle in for 40 minutes of poetry and giggles.Leon had travelled out to Scotland for a wedding between two poets who had set each other a task of writing each other a poem during the getting-to-know you stage of their relationship. We share those poems on the show. Beautiful stuff.Ryan, from his posing position in ...

The days are the shorter, and we're here to keep you companyIt'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 fire and LUAS trains being destroyed, but it was a year ago would you believe. Those dark days are shared through ...

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 from his sister for Christmas as a present, seemingly one of the better gifts he's received from h...

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.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45495/the-ballad-of-reading-gaolImelda May - Liberty Bellehttps://www.you...

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 [email protected] or if you click our linktree we have an NGL that you can use to send a message anonymously. Just head over...

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, so we delve into the world of novels that we think we know the story of, but not quite. We also share a Shel...

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 'Mammies Boy', so we had to start there and discuss the poem.Lizzy Byrne had the audience eating out of her hands on st...

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! We talk about life on the road, fame and making sure you keep your circle close.David Hynes, the brains behind Th...

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 poem 'Wine In A Can'We then get into the scary world of Chat GPT, as we set it the task to write its own v...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 it.Weirdly, pirate life gets a few ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...