Poems For Dead People

Ryan Kent is a poet, author, and musician whose works include Poems For Dead People (2014), This Is Why I Am Insane (2017), Hit Me When I’m Pretty (2019), and Everything Is On Fire: Selected Poems 2014–2021 (2025). He has co-authored three collections with Brett Lloyd and released the album Dying Comes With Age (2022 Rare Bird), featuring heavy metal icons like Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) and Jimmy Bower (Eye Hate God), Laura Pleasants (Kylesa) and Eugene Robinson (Oxbow).

Formerly the vocalist of the metal band Gritter (2008–2018), Ryan is working on new music, spoken works and poetry. His latest single, OH YEAH recorded under the moniker Poems For Dead People, features Blank Verse artist Charlie Glenn on guitar, and is a smoke-filled exercise in noir-pop accentuated by Kent’s signature baritone swagger.

+ Blank Verse Records is thrilled to announce the release of “It Is Howling Here”, the latest single from Poems For Dead People, created in collaboration with electronic project Intertitle. The track is now available on all major streaming platforms. A noir-electronic meditation on isolation and resonance, “It Is Howling Here” layers Intertitle’s moody electro soundscapes with the evocative vocals of Ryan Kent, recorded in a separate session and later woven into the track’s haunting architecture. The result is a shadowy, immersive experience that blurs the line between spoken word and sonic abstraction.

“We wanted the track to feel like a transmission from a forgotten frequency,” says a representative from Blank Verse Records. “It’s a piece that lives in the margins—between poetry and pulse, memory and machinery.”

This release marks a bold evolution for both acts, showcasing their shared affinity for atmosphere, tension, and emotional depth. 

Ryan has been proudly alcohol-free since 2018.

The Big Take Over - “This is music of the liminal spaces, music that borders other, non-musical creative spaces, music that walks fine lines between genres and artforms, music that sits at a point where all manner of disciplines wash up against each other. Music that sounds like the soundtrack to the hottest and most underground, urban dystopia film of the moment, unnerving yet totally reflective, relatable and resonant of the mindset of our times.”

The Indie Grid - “****” “81/100” “Great” “For those attuned to experimental, mood-driven electronic music, this collaboration demonstrates both artists’ willingness to push boundaries, proving that when voice and electronics intertwine with purpose, the result can be as haunting as it is hypnotic.”

Mystic Sons - “Teaming up with Intertitle for his newest outing, 'It Is Howling Here' makes for a wonderfully rich and textured return for him. With his smooth yet haunted vocals gliding across this atmospheric production from start to finish, he is continuing to cement himself as one of the more exciting names on the rise right now.”

FLEX - “But what makes 'It Is Howling Here' remarkable is the synergy between abstraction and narrative. We are invited into a liminal space where memory, machinery, and melancholy converge.”

Dancing About Architecture - “The intent was, apparently, to create a piece of music that sounded like a broadcast received on a long-forgotten frequency, something that felt like it fell between poetry and pulse, memory and machinery, but something other, something from beyond. It is fair to say that this is mission accomplished.

Beach House Magazine - “An impressive track that deserves your full attention”

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