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