Pam Ayres, Charity Shop Books And Staying On The Right Path

05/06/24 • 47 min

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.
Our agony aunt is all about how to to stay on the right track, and finding out what that track is.
We also gush over Matthew McConaughey, share a theory about Roddy Doyle and read out a message from a listener that had us both in tears. Oh, we talk about tears as well.
We basically talked way too much on this one lol.
As always, get in touch with us on Instagram @thepoetrysdeadpodcast or email us at [email protected]
Poems from the episode:
Dave Jones - Among The Fools
Instagram - @davedelirious
Pam Ayres - Geriatric Juliet
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43520176
Leon Dunne - Lidl Siblings and Ed's Keys
Instagram - @nomanticz
David Hynes - Porter Price
Instagram - @hynestein1
Ryan Duggins - The End
Instagram - @ryanduggins

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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

Previous 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

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Original music by Matthew Keating
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Oscar Wilde, Dylan Thomas And Taylor Swift

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 new album 'The Tortured Poets Society that pushed us to feature the pompous Welshman.
Colm Keegan wants us to see the world through a horse's eyes, which we then do through his poem 'Howya Horse'.
A little bit of sad-girl poetry from Jose Cameron proceeds our Agony Aunt where we help someone who has been caught in the middle of two gossip queens at work.
Get in touch with us on Instagram, TikTok or email ([email protected]) and keep an eye out for our Patreon that we'll launch that will give exclusive access to our upcoming book club and ways to contact other members of the podcast 'poetics', which is the name we're now calling you.
Hope you love this one guys.
(Go Taylor Swift )
Poems from the episode:
Oscar Wilde - The Ballad Of Reading Goal (an exert)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45495/the-ballad-of-reading-gaol
Dylan Thomas - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
https://allpoetry.com/do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night
Colm Keegan - How'ya Horse
Instagram - Colm_Keegan
Josie Cameron - Your Favourite Jumper
TikTok - josiecameron1
Leon Dunne - Woes At Work