Jesus. That year went by fecking quickly, but life tends to slip by when it’s greased up with so many bloody brilliant poems.

In our final podcast of the year, we celebrate the winners of our Quillkeeper collaboration that all have won a page in our second anthology that will be out next week! Well done again to DK, Brenna and Katy for bringing absolute fire to us.

We have a lovely Christmas poem by JRR Tolkein, a piece about lovers from different worlds by Seán Óg Ó Murchú, a tribute to those we won’t be spending time with this Christmas from Ryan and our agony aunt is back helping someone who needs a hand finding their tribe.

As is standard, we share what little we know about all the bloody things those poems bring up including border crimes, how to maintain a relationship with your parents and what problems we think AI will actually solve that isn’t just writing better emails.

We’ll be getting the book details locked down this week and hopefully have it available in time for Santa 🎅🏻

As we’ve been saying a lot recently, every person who listens to the show means the absolute world to us. It’s been such a fulfilling year for us, and a lot of that is down to the connections we’ve found through the show so to each and every one of you, a huge thank you and a Merry Christmas.

Thanks guys

Ryan and Leon

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Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction by Lisa Downey

Produced by Ryan Duggins