The Poetry's Dead Podcast Halloween Special

The Poetry's Dead Podcast

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