Our last podcast was our 50th show lads. 50! Mad.

On Monday, we have a load of poems and stories for, starting with some info about our live podcast at Swords Castle next Saturday with Wavin Words where there’s also a young poets slam for anyone between 14-18 years of age. If you know of a future world champion slam poet, bring them.

Speaking of being inspired by young people, thanks to Katriona O'Sullivan sharing a post a few weeks back, we have poetry from Reece, who penned a powerful poem about the pre-conceptions he faces from the reputation of where he’s from.

We were incredibly moved and got in touch with his teacher Nadine who sent us the story of the poem's creation and what it’s like to teach poetry in schools. She also pushed Reece to recite the poem for us, incredible.

We have poems from Clonakilty’s own James Harpur, Dara Clear from @theclearoutpodcast and music from Derry’s own ‘James-Arthur-but-better’ Conor McLain @cmclainmusic

Congrats Conor on killing it at Whelans last night and best of luck on the rest of your tour

Hope to see you at Swords Castle for our live podcast!

Poems from the show

Dara Clear - Time

https://shows.acast.com/theclearout

Reece - Labelled

James Harpur - Poem

https://eblanapress.com/

Fritz Von Ostini - We Snort And We Inject

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2016/11/nazis-drugs-how-kick-crystal-meth-powered-blitzkrieg

Music from Conor McLain - Adored By You

https://open.spotify.com/track/1DHTO5w62FnC6jx1zirAwC

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