SPOKEN WORD
An interview with the John Cummins, current all-Ireland slam poetry champion, including discussion of numbered notebooks, beard epidemics and readings of several of his poems. Interviewer: Karl Parkinson
An interview with the poet Erin Fornoff talking about the Lingo festival. Interviewer: Karl Parkinson. For more information, check out: https://www.facebook.com/LingoFestival and http://lingofestival.com/
Angels
by Clara Rose Thornton
During 2012-2013 Clara Rose Thornton toured Europe as Vice & Verses, a site-specific performance she conceived involving her original spoken word set to live music, co-composed with native musicians in each country in which the show was performed. She is Chicago-born, New-York-simmered, Dublin-dwelling. She has been writing and performing poetry since her teens. Find her atclararosethornton.com and twitter.com/clararose.