I am a monthly resident at Stranded FM Utrecht with my show 'More Poetry is Needed' 

Listen back to all the shows, all kinds of everything in poetry and music.

The show name is based on an artwork by Jeremy Deller, commissioned as part of a Dylan Thomas 100 project [Pictured] More Poetry is Needed is plastered on a wide wall at the back end of Swansea's Quadrant Shopping Centre. A reminder to commercial shoppers and the lines of parked cars: everybody and everywhere could do with more poetry.

More Poetry is Needed

MORE POETRY IS NEEDED: Elsewhere, Walking in the Peatlands

First radio of the year from @strandedfm. 12pm NL, 11am IRE.

A special episode where I recite an essay published in @transcriptmagazine Issue One. 

The reading is a written documentation of a ten hour experiment conducted in August 2021: a walk from Leiden to Amsterdam in search of creative enlightenment. I intersperse each hour with music that reflects the landscape and circumstance I found myself in. I hope you enjoy. Lace up your boots, join my past self and my current self, my afterthoughts, on a stroll through the Groene Hart.

In the words of Bob Dylan in ‘My Back Pages’ —

“I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now’ 

Tracks:

Prairie - Oliver Coates
Smiling in Slow Motion - Mike Midnight
Marie - Henry Earnest
The Turning Ground - Tara Clerking Trio
Space 1 - Nala Sinephro
Midnight Blues - Pavel Milyakov, Yana Pavlova
Clouds Up - Air
Painful Memories - MDA Analog
Green Shower - Hiroshi Yoshimura
Lying Down - Frog of Earth
Boy 1904 - Jónsi, Alex Somers
Live Forever - Magic AL, Rosali
Solan Goose - Erland Cooper
Staying Here - Astrid Sonne

#12 More Poetry is Needed: Elsewhere, Walking in the Peatlands

Saturday morning radio all around the work of John Cale, maestro musician and producer. He made the viola sound like a steam train. 

John has been around, he’s 83. I saw him in Utrecht at the Tivoli last Monday, still rocking. There goes Johnny Cale, the browning banana, still showing his bright yellowish glow.

#14 John Cale, There's A Pigeon In My Window

As it was the week of my birthday, it felt like the right time to play you my favourites, poetry new and poetry old. This show went out live on @strandedfm, and I noted the passage of time.

We are all just flowers, rising from our pots.

#15 One Fine Morning for the Birthday Boy

MORE POETRY IS NEEDED: NÓISIN, NOW COMES THE SPRING

On Saturday 17 May Charlie was joined by Mark (@mtoallennon) of @noisincollective on the radio. 

We presented an hour of poetry and music for the bright threshold period between spring and summertime. It was the month of May and the days were only getting longer. Join us as we strolled around, through the ending and beginning of things, listening to the bird-chirps, smelling the aromas rising out of the foxgloves. The pollen count was high, and we are buzzing like the bumblebees.

Peader remixes, poetry, pagan, ethereal.

More Poetry Is Needed w/  Mark Toal-Lennon (Nóisin Collective)| May 17th 2025 | Stranded FM

MORE POETRY IS NEEDED: TIME GOES BY ON THE RINGWEG

Saturday 21st June 2025, the longest day of the year and the day the Ringweg or Ring road of Amsterdam, the A10, is being shut down and closed for a day of parties and other frivolity. All to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the city of Amsterdam. 

So in this episode I celebrated with the music and poetry of the motorway, the great loops, the passage of vehicles, stuck in traffic, or fuelled up and cruising on their way, the entry, the exit, the endlessness, can you smell the tarmac?

Strap in.

Tracklist
Overture (Bus) – Daniel Blumberg
Album: The Brutalist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Dark blue – caroline
Music Video

LA – Amor Muere, Camille Mandoki, Concepción Huerta, Gibra...
Album: A time to love, a time to die

Autobahn – Single Edit – Kraftwerk
Album: Autobahn

Time Goes By – Kean Kavanagh
Album: The County Star

Roads – Portishead
Album: Dummy

Clouds – Maria Chiara Argirò
Album: Forest City

The Path Less Travelled – Vegyn
Album: The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions

road – Duval Timothy
Album: wishful thinking

Mirror Mirror – Good Sad Happy Bad
Album: All kinds of days

X.U.Y. – Moin
Album: Belly Up

Handle – Officer John
Album: Handle

Love Is Overtaking Me – Arthur Russell
Album: Love Is Overtaking Me

Love Takes Miles – Cameron Winter
Album: Heavy Metal

#17 More Poetry Is Needed: Time Goes By On The Ringweg

Saturday 12th July 2025, I invite you to sit under the apple tree or stare at a balcony potplant, and ponder the wonders of a garden at summertime. 

I plan to bring some colours to your Saturday.

Recorded Live in Stranded FM Utrecht

#18 More Poetry Is Needed: Some Gardens in Summertime

Host of ‘More Poetry is Needed' @ Stranded FM, Utrecht

A writer from Dublin living in Amsterdam.
www.ciaolemagne.com

Writing on landscape and art — Radio shows — Travel Writing — Poetry — Guided Walks

#12 More Poetry is Needed: Elsewhere, Walking in the Peatlands

Charlie Seadog