Emily Dickinson, Harry Baker And A Tribute To Paddy Downey
04/22/24 • 41 min
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 beautifully.
After a touching start, we talk about Emily Dickinson as a influence on society even if she wasn't able to see her own work land the way it did during her own lifetime.
Harry Baker shows us how its done next with a snippet from his latest book 'Wonderful' that makes us all look very amateur, indeed.
We giggle in the words of Aine Budds, who brings to our table (she's a chef, get it!) a bit of seasoning that we need in our lives with her poem, 'Greasy Love'
Fingal Poetry Slam winner Kev Kennedy comes through with his piece Mankee Candle, before Leon answers our Agony Aunt section with a poem to help someone struggling with keeping to a routine
We missed you, and we hope you kinda missed us too :)
Ryan and Leon
Poems from the show
Paddy Downey - Dublin Zoo
@poemsbypaddy On Instagram
Lisa Downey - My Daddy Paddy
Emily Dickinson - 'Hope' Is The Thing With Feathers
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314
Harry Baker - Ingrid
https://www.harrybaker.co/store
Aine Budds - Greasy Love
@flowerbudds On Instagram
Kev Kennedy - Mankee Candle
@heavy_keavvy_ On Instagram
Leon Dunne - Routine
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
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 beautifully.
After a touching start, we talk about Emily Dickinson as a influence on society even if she wasn't able to see her own work land the way it did during her own lifetime.
Harry Baker shows us how its done next with a snippet from his latest book 'Wonderful' that makes us all look very amateur, indeed.
We giggle in the words of Aine Budds, who brings to our table (she's a chef, get it!) a bit of seasoning that we need in our lives with her poem, 'Greasy Love'
Fingal Poetry Slam winner Kev Kennedy comes through with his piece Mankee Candle, before Leon answers our Agony Aunt section with a poem to help someone struggling with keeping to a routine
We missed you, and we hope you kinda missed us too :)
Ryan and Leon
Poems from the show
Paddy Downey - Dublin Zoo
@poemsbypaddy On Instagram
Lisa Downey - My Daddy Paddy
Emily Dickinson - 'Hope' Is The Thing With Feathers
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314
Harry Baker - Ingrid
https://www.harrybaker.co/store
Aine Budds - Greasy Love
@flowerbudds On Instagram
Kev Kennedy - Mankee Candle
@heavy_keavvy_ On Instagram
Leon Dunne - Routine
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
Previous Episode
Edgar Allen Poe, Benjamin Zephaniah and Parenting
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 Windrush Scandal
We then go into 'Mr Cheerful' himself Edgar Allen Poe and talk about his brilliance as a poet and storyteller.
We share the stresses of being a budding writer in 2024 through the story of Lee Sheridan, who started his own publishing company in defiance of rejections of his work.
Mikey Cullen then comes through with a much needed vacation poem that we know you're going to love
We end with our Agony Aunt section where we have a disgruntled parent wanting to give their kids a bit of a kick, and we assist with poems from Hollie McNish as well as a poem from Leon himself.
As always, give us a like and a follow and Happy Fecking Easter
Poems from the episode:
Benjamin Zephaniah - People Need People
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/benjamin-zephaniah-people-will-always-need-people
Edgar Allen Poe - A Dream Within A Dream
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52829/a-dream-within-a-dream
Lee Sheridan - The Place To Be
https://www.writing.ie/member-authors/lee-sheridan/
Mikey Cullen - Elysium
Instagram - @mikey___cullen
Hollie McNish - Do You Remember?
https://holliepoetry.com/2015/09/17/nobody-told-me/
Leon Dunne - The Shed
Instagram - @nomanticz
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
Next Episode
Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy And Skipping Meals By Accident
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.
Daragh Fleming and Jessie Floods are our homegrown choices this week. Both beautiful writers, and we've handpicked our favourite poems from them.
Our Agony Aunt is all about making better plans around having stuff on at night, specifically about missing dinner. Ryan share's a poem about the loveliness of having 'stuff on', where Leon takes a more direct route to the issue with his poem 'Midnight Pizza'.
Get in touch with us with your poems via Instagram @thepoetrysdeadpodcast or email us [email protected]
Thanks as always for listening to us
Ryan and Leon
Correction - In the section discussing Carol Ann Duffy, Ryan introduces Duffy as the first poet laureate where he meant to say first FEMALE poet laureate.
Poems from the episode
Carol Ann Duffy - Tea (Taken from Rapture 2005)
https://www.waterstones.com/book/rapture/carol-ann-duffy/9781509852789
Seamus Heaney - Scaffolding
https://poets.org/poem/scaffolding
Daragh Fleming - Be Alive
Instagram - @daraghfleming
Jessie Floods - The Revolving Door
Instagram - @jflooders
W.H Davies - Leisure
https://englishverse.com/poems/leisure
Leon Dunne - Midnight Pizza
Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey
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