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

Four weeks ago I found myself eating a tomato and cheddar cheese dusted bap made by Loraine in a car travelling from Telford to Inverness. The engine purred as we passed through the Yorkshire Dales, the hills folding onto one another towards the peaks of the Lake District and the town of Kendal, I swear I saw the shimmering ghosts of Wordsworth and Coleridge climbing slowly to the top of a distant hill.

There was only one song that could be played on the car stereo, the only song that made sense in that moment, ‘Summertime in England’ by Van Morrison.

And it was then I hatched an idea for this episode of More Poetry is Needed: An examination of the poets, the literary and musical greats mentioned in Van Morrison’s ‘Summertime in England’, one of my all-time favourite songs.

Recorded 24th June 2023 at Stranded FM, Utrecht.

#02 More Poetry is Needed: Summertime in England

OFFICIAL! Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3uWzyIhMfQ

Portland, Oregon

pedal steel by more eaze
harp by róisín berkeley
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Henry Earnest - Marie

pedal steel by more eaze
harmonies by banríon
violin by lile otaki
piano by isaac jones

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mastered by finn carraher mcdonald

artwork by anna heisterkamp

video:  https://youtu.be/k9XUZ2UlYKI

Henry Earnest - Forever 2

In “Tom’s House”, a new audio-drama from artist and writer Jacob Dwyer, we listen to the meanderings of someone who’s returned home for the first time in 15 years. Walking up Haddon Drive he spots the house of an old friend, Tom. The front door is open, so he goes inside. Wandering around the empty Tudor cottage - making cups of tea, rearranging CD collections and zoning in on the minutiae of domestic space - he ruminates on ideas of emotional intimacy, friendship and grief.

"Hello? Hello?" echoes Jacob's voice, searching for a connection inside empty rooms and memories. As we move through the story, the house shifts slowly back to the realm of the living, while upending ideas gestate in Jacob's mind, like bodies floating within bodies. "THE BABY IS LEGIT UPSIDE DOWN!"

With his field recording equipment, much like his trusty Canon HF10 camera, Jacob evokes the cosmic: at one moment zooming in on microscopic dust particles of dead skin moving through the dank air in murmuration, whilst panning out to catch a poetic, universal overview the next.

"Tom’s House" incorporates voice, foley, field recordings and an original soundtrack composed by K. Freund, Kareem Lotfy, Zuza Banasińska and Jacob Oostra.

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Music by Jacob Oostra, K Freund, Zuza Banasińska and Kareem Lotfy
Additional voices by Susanna Simpson, Rachel Dwyer, Faysal Mroueh
Ceramic firebacks by Florence Dwyer

Distributed by Rush Hour
Text by Fizzy Veins & Jacob Dwyer
Design by Rudy Guedj

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SONCD-001 - Jacob Dwyer - Tom's House (snippets)

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

Our inaugural selection of ethereal Irish bangers. Hosted by Cian O'Connell and Mark Toal-Lennon. Produced by Rob Toal-Lennon.

For the good turf. Digging. Broadcast #001

An afternoon of stories and songs about dirty auld Dublin hosted by historian Donal Fallon in conversation with Phelim Drew. Introduction by Mark Toal-Lennon and Cian O'Connell. Sound by Alan Hanlon. 

Rare Auld Times Live from Hen's Teeth. Broadcast #002

More Poetry Is Needed | June 21st | 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

Shit Robot - Warm Up for LCD Soundsystem @ Brixton Academy - Friday 20 June 2025

A swift hour long excursion into the unknown. Expect the unexpected from host Tom Cathcart as almost anything goes: techno, post-punk, minimal synth, dub and new wave. Don’t be a prude. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/last-resort/episodes/last-resort-12th-july-2025

Last Resort W/ OFFICER JOHN  120725

More Poetry Is Needed | July 12th 2025 | Stranded FM

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

#02 More Poetry is Needed: Summertime in England

Charlie Seadog

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