Performance #9 -  I am a puppet, the bear is real

European Poetry Festival at Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge April Monday 15th 2019 www.riverbank.ie Renowned poets visiting from across Europe visited Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge for a special performance event that showcased the energy and innovation so defining of 21st European poetry. Curated by Christodoulos Makris.

My reading in Ireland featured a bear, who castigated me for reading and not performing, and told me some truths I needed to hear, and then a poem I had written that day, which listed out most of the poets who had been a part of the festival. A small snippet of the text below :

how like Maja Jantar to bring nobility back leaning forcing dignity back into the act of screaming at you

how like Fabian Faltin to bankwit, to make thorough masculinity as important too, you bibbles

how like Léonce Lupette to soul giant with a head of hair made of Drinking blood

how like Ida Börjel to ask me to choke her on stage without any warning whatsoever

how like Olga Stehlíková to be eyes alive all times and love audio video with winky pause

how like Inga Pizane to make everyother ape like mean while giving me chocolate truffles, thanks and on……………..