Episode 8 Of John's Poetic Iicense featuring Poetry from Julie Goo and Antonio Di Mare, as well as music from Ciara Lawless, along with your regular hosts John Horan and Jason J Fischer from a living room in Cork City.

Welcome to episode 7 Of John's Poetic License featuring Poetry and Music performed by Daniel Scholl, Imasha Costa, Neil Menon and Daria Zoe B as well as your hosts JJF and John Horan.

Welcome to John's Poetic License #6 a night of spoken word & poetry featuring Daragh Fleming and David Bowe as well as music from Jamie O'Shea, with your hosts JJF and John Horan. Including enthusiastic support from Chloe the dog.

Join us for a variety of spoken word, music and song from a living room in Cork City. Featuring music from Jamie O'Shea and Luke Clerkin as well as poetry from Elisa Sabbadin, Annie Peter, as well your hosts JJF and John Horan, plus some random conversation. Have you ever seen a fish that looks like a bomb? We have!

Welcome to episode 4 of John's Poetic License featuring poets Catherine Ronan, Jason Stoneking, The Vagabond Queen, Adam Kelly and the rapper Kaycii as well as your hosts JJF and John Horan. A beautiful mosaic of perspectives on life, reality and the Cosmos. 

Welcome to the Sling! Sling! edition of John's Poetic License. Featuring Sling! Slang!'s founder Cara Kursh and host Richie Pierce as well as their chosen guest poet, Jamie Lawton. With poetry and songs as well as some pretty deep conversations considering how to nurture creativity and inspiration as well as taking care of our mental health and relationship. As always hosted by JJ Fisher and John Horan from his living room in Cork City. His dogs also, inevitably, make an appearance.

Episode 2 Of John's Poetic License. A poetry night from a sitting room in Cork City hosted by John Horan featuring Ciaran Shanahan, Philip Spillane, Leen, Rosalin Blue, Jamie O'Shea, JJF and Benjamin Volpers. A mixture of original spoken word and music from a vast range of topics from the most serious to the playful and fun.

Welcome to a new series of poetry nights hosted by John Horan from the heart of Cork City. Episode 1 features performances from JJF, Tanja Vu, Cédric Bikond Nkoma, Roksi, Sushobhan Patnaaik (Sushi) and Benjamin Volpers. The craic was ninety!

Me and my friend Mike Bourke review the latest David Fincher movie Mank, about the writing of Citizen Kane, A promising debut from a pair of female writers/directors in Blow the Man Down and an interesting art house experiment capturing the last night of a local dive bar in Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets.

Our second Poetry Episode, with Ben Burns a friend and local poet and featuring Dan Johnson a poet from New Jersey now living in Cork City. Join us as we have a bit of crack reading our poems and also a selected one from each of us of an established poet we like. I, your host John Horan, read Personal by Tony Hoagland, Ben read Woodnotes by Douglas Dunn and Dan read To The Man After The Harrow by Patrick Kavanagh.

A look at Parasite and it's unexpected success in the Oscars, Safdie Brothers thriller Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler in an uncharacteristic straight role and Honey Boy, Shia LeBouf's hail Mary shot at movie redemption. Also, we debate if hussies are capable of love. Hosted by John Horan with my friends Chris Cullen, Michael Bourke and Tommy Jackson.

Upcoming Cork Hip Hop star Gatch shares some tracks from his forthcoming debut album Imminence, and chats to me and Jason J Fischer about the rap scene in Ireland, plus we get deep talking about the mental health crisis affecting many of his peers that inspired some of his writing.

 

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This is a special episode where I talked to 5 Cork City Councillors about the contents of the UN Special Rapporteur on housing's letter to the Government about Real Estate Investment Trusts which brought in the Vulture funds who raised rents to record levels. And also about Homelessness, is it being normalized or is there something we can do about it? And does the Irish mindset on housing need to change? The Councillors I spoke with were Solidarity's Fiona Ryan, Sinn Fein's Thomas Gould, Oliver Moran of The Greens, Fianna Fail's Colm Kelleher and Fine Gael's Des Cahill.

We review groundbreaking high school movie Eight Grade, Tom Cruise vehicle American Made and Harmony Korine's latest art house movie the Beach Bum. With my friends Mike Bourke and Peter MacCarthy we go into the Cruisenator's career highs and lows plus the weird Sceintology shit.

All Spoilers!!! Do not listen unless you've already seen Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Me and my friends Chris Cullen, Mike Bourke and Dave Horgan share our reaction to the new Quentin Tarantino film

A hang out with some local Cork poets where we read some of our poems and chat about what inspires us. Ben wrote a parody podcast script which we performed and I set to some music afterwards.

We review the albums Serfs Up! by Fat White Family, Capacity by Big Thief, Originals By Prince and Drift Code by Rustin Man with my friend Mike Bourke. Plus a ramble about what we hated and loved (mostly hated) about 80's music touching on Husker Du, Duran Duran, Madonna and AC/DC.

This episode features local Cork rappers Spekulativ Fiktion - Sean Murphy, Calm D'Goolys - Paul Byrne, and Jason J Fisher sharing some of their music, talking about influences, the local rap scene and the #CorkRapRenaissance. Plus some spoken word speckled throughout. Jason uses the Shredders tune Flipping Cars for his live rap performance. Plus we all have a laugh attempting a group freestyle at the end.

 

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We review the latest season of Black Mirror as well as HBO's Chernobyl with my friends Chris Cullen and Dave Horgan,

Tonglen is a Tibetan Buddhist meditation that helps us process and let go of difficult emotions. I find it very helpful in dealing with anxiety. Try it and see how it works for you.