Allen Ginsberg, Wedding Poetry and Sharing Friends With Your Ex

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10/21/24 • 40 min

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 Merrion Square, with a notepad in hand wrote a poem that he shares on the show that will put a smile on your face for sure.
We mentioned Allen Ginsberg on the show last week, and the lads didn't know too much about him. We fix that with a poem and a short backstory of that 'Beat Generation' of American poets
Menna Siwan treats us with a poem that sends thanks to someone who crawled back from the edge with a piece called 'For You'.
Our Agony Aunt this week is all about who keeps the friends after a break-up. Spoiler: You might need a few new friends
We have the read-along now live and kicking so if you'd like to join us, sign up to our Patreon. We have a new book every month so get involved you absolute ride.
Poems from the show:
Dave and Sophie McIntyre - Wedding Poems
Instagram: @sm_gruber and @davidrobertmcintyre
Ryan Duggins - My Favourite Day
Instagram - @ryanduggins
Allen Ginsberg - When The Light Appears
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/08/specials/ginsberg-obit.html?oref=login
Menna Siwan - For You
Instagram - @mennasiwan
Agony Aunt - The Split

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Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey

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Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey

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Georgie Jones, Sean Walsh and Postnatal Depression

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 fire and LUAS trains being destroyed, but it was a year ago would you believe. Those dark days are shared through a poem by Sean Walsh.
We are lucky enough to have a lovely community following the show, and luckily for us, poems are always coming out of our folk so we wanted to share poems this week from two very talented community members, Joao Coimbra and Muiris Cloherty.
We received an agony aunt problem since the last show that we just didn't feel qualified at Poetry's Dead HQ to help with, so we drafted in a specialist in the form of the Ireland Poetry Grand Slam champion Anna Doran, who delivers one of our favourite pieces of the show so far.
We also have the voice of Ethan Hawke, funeral chat (It is an Irish podcast afterall) and a confession that could lead to Ryan losing his university degree.
Our read-along is now live for our Patreon subscribers, so if you'd like to join us read a new poetry collection each month and get an exclusive show about it, you can join us here - https://www.patreon.com/thepoetrysdeadpodcast
Stay savage and enjoy
Ryan and Leon
Poems from the show:
Georgie Jones - Ode To The Ladies Loo
https://www.tiktok.com/@georgiejonez/video/7205734276208332038
Sean Walsh - Grief
Instagram - @sean.walsh.96
Muiris Cloherty - The Daylight Atheist
Instagram - @muiris_cloherty7
Joao Coimbra - Good And Empty
Instagram - @joaowrites
Anna Doran - Matrescence
Instagram - @annad.poetry

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Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey

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The Poetry's Dead Podcast Halloween Special

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. We wanted to share that this week, narrated by James Earl Jones.
We bounce between ghouls, skeletons, bonfires, murder and throw in a mention of 'THAT' jump scare video where the car drives around the lane. You know the one.
Leon has his own ghost story too that will keep you awake for sure.
If you're in Ireland you'll get this on a bank holiday, so go wash last night's fake blood off that face, go for a walk and take us with you.
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Poems from the show:
The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe
Taken from The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror 1991
Porphyria's Lover - Robert Browning
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46313/porphyrias-lover
The Visitor - Ian Serallier
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p011lgcd
Suzanne Meehan - The Gurrier's Rite
Instagram - @suzie433
Mary Karr - Field Of Skulls
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43134/field-of-skulls
Theresa McCormack - If I Was A Ghost
Instagram - @theworldaccordingtot
Leon Dunne - A Ghost Story
Instagram - @nomanticz