I'm currently living on an island and working on two projects that are directly related to islands - the other being a poetry book, and the other being an immersive theatre performance. There is something about islands I find comforting, even when this poem out of my self-published collection might suggest otherwise. You can orderContinue reading "Islands – poem & thoughts"
News! News!
This week, we have had the first two meetings of Remote Control, an artist development programme run by Brú Theatre, the Town Hall Theatre & Galway Dance Project. I'm one of the four artists selected to take part and excited to get to work. I'll be looking at stories related to Inishmore, where I amContinue reading "News! News!"
Anthropocene – a short play draft
I was reading through some of my old stuff from MA in Playwriting & Dramaturgy at NUIG (while simultaneously getting another rejection letter, how delightful) and just found this short beginning of a piece or a scene kind of delightful and wanted to share.
Dissociation – a piece written for Glass Half Full Theatre’s weekly challenge for playwrights
Glass Half Full Theatre asked for a two minute monologue containing ten spesific words, and even when this wasn't chosen as the weekly monologue, they did enjoy reading it - so you might, as well. Ten words underneath the piece. DISSOCIATION Brush teeth. Gargle. Make a pot of coffee. Eat toast, but it tastes likeContinue reading "Dissociation – a piece written for Glass Half Full Theatre’s weekly challenge for playwrights"
The Secret
How is it January already? I was planning on taking a week away from the blog, but time, it sometimes just disappears while you are wandering. Also, still not really getting back to this, just sharing some other work I did while not posting in the blog. Here's a video of a poem written forContinue reading "The Secret"
Last Day of November – and the last poem for now
I started to write this blog around 4th of November with the aim to write a poem every day. I skipped one day, but just because everything outside where I live was too beautiful to even try and think about how to reach anything similar with words. What I have learned is that I feelContinue reading "Last Day of November – and the last poem for now"
Villages and cities
I'm very much in two's. I have two home countries, other by birth, other because I feel like I belong there - or because I chose it. I have two languages (although I do get by with German and Swedish as well, but would not dream of writing poetry in either of them). I haveContinue reading "Villages and cities"
Becoming wilderness – a video
Some days I like to remind myself I am a spoken word artist and read the poems aloud. Here's today's thoughts. https://youtu.be/Kh_KS6nsoqs
On being unfinished
One of the reasons I love poetry is it's ability to address and communicate in-betweens - the moments of change, the processes, the insecurity I always find trying to explain human experience and its correlations to reality with mere speech. We were chatting about this the other day, and one of the most obvious examplesContinue reading "On being unfinished"
Busy day
26th of November has been a rather busy day - I've been talking with the graphic designer of my upcoming book, made calls over some other productions (two of my plays are being produced currently) and then accidentally ended up taking a long walk instead of a short one before enjoying Coney's The Magic TrickContinue reading "Busy day"
Queen of Wandering 