16 MAR 2024 · 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. 

31 JAN 2024 · 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.

24 NOV 2023 · 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.

13 OCT 2023 · 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!

21 JAN 2021 · 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.

3 OCT 2020 · 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.

21 FEB 2020 · 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.

25 SEP 2019 · 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.   Gatch's FB page Youtube

15 SEP 2019 · 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.

13 SEP 2019 · 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.