Poetry Jukebox is an on-street audio installation of poetry. This poem, Bushfire is by Stephanie Conn. It was included in our Once Barefoot curation of poems about climate, which ran concurrently at Belfast City Council’s Tropical Ravine and at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.
Poetry Jukebox is an on-street audio installation of poetry. This poem, Formerly Exotic Fruit is by Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe. It is included on our HUNGERING curation for EPIC Museum in Dublin.
Poetry Jukebox is an on-street audio installation of poetry. This poem, Family Picnic, by Moyra Donaldson, was included in our HUNGERING curation at EPIC Museum in Dublin. Moyra is currently a recipient of a Major Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Poetry Jukebox is an on street audio installation of poetry. This poem, Bucharest 1989 is by Shannon Kuta Kelly. It was part of our HUNGERING curation at EPIC Museum Dublin. This collection of poems was selected with poet Jessica Traynor. It was scheduled to be at Centre Culturel Irlandais – we hope the might happen, ‘ When all of this is over…..’
Poetry Jukebox is an on street audio installation of poetry. Michelle Penn’s poem Aubade, features on our Once Barefoot curation about the climate. It is at Centre Culturel Irlandais and at Belfast Tropical Ravine.
Poetry Jukebox is an on-street audio installation of poetry. This poem, Between Ebb & Flow, is by Anne Casey. It was included in ‘A Deeper Country’, a curation in homage to CS Lewis. It was first installed at CS Lewis Square in East Belfast. This curation has done a bit of a ‘tour’, in that it has also travelled to Bangor for the Aspects Festival and also to the Alley Theatre in Strabane.
Poetry Jukebox puts poetry into public space. This jukebox is at the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast. This Place Meant by Adam Trodd, featured on our very first curation which was part of the Belfast International Festival in October 2017.
Poetry Jukebox puts poetry into public space. This jukebox is at the Crescent Arts Centre Belfast. This poem Hand Me Down by Anita Gracey was part of our Song Of Myself curation of poems at CS Lewis Square. The poems launched the only jukebox in the world which includes features to make it more accessible to disabled people.
Hand-Me-Down by Anita Gracey, read by Peter Gracey
You are a ploughed dark field,
overturned soil swaddles
your heart as treasure,
Clontibret’s tapped seam1
you pinned my paintings up,
each one a Gerard Dillon
your kisses a first-aid box,
arguments sticking plaster
smiles as stretch-marks,
elastic purrs
you had Willow pattern teacups,
on birthdays we raised our pinky’s
your laugh a grandstand,
one-liners own goals
freckles as rosary beads,
always to be counted on
arms comfort blankets,
carries my worries
you said, when asleep you sigh
my snore is Herculean
your voice as I waken,
a brass band of blessings
when you died, grief was the sea,
a hurricane I was treading
a boat was your face,
the drogue2 I let go
bequeathed in burnished thoughts,
in time, I’m a sunbeam.
1A huge untapped seam of gold has been discovered near Clontibret in County Monaghan.
The seam, found in 2008, is believed to be the biggest ever located in Ireland.
Poetry Jukebox puts poetry into Public space. This jukebox is at the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast. Next up – This beautiful poem – The Dreaming Octopus by Nessa O’Mahony. This poem has featured in our Once Barefoot curation, which is about climate change and is at Belfast Tropical Ravine and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Poetry Jukebox puts poetry into Public space. This jukebox is at the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast. Next up – This beautiful poem – The Singable Black by Matthew Rice. This poem has featured in our Once Barefoot curation, which is about climate change and is at Belfast Tropical Ravine and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
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