Solas Nua
When:
March 23, 2017
Where:
The Hillyer Art Space



Poet  -Julie Morrissy

What do you hope to explore through your poetry?

 
"My poetry explores the transcultural experience, which is different to diasporic writing because I am interested in a transcultural citizen who I see as being more temporary in nature. I focus on the emigrant experience of those who move between English-speaking urban centres that contain all of the familiar tropes of global capitalism. I hope to explore how globalization obscures the transcultural citizen's relationship to place by presenting uniformity that is merely superficial. Globalisation masks the difficulties of moving between places, and that appearance of familiarity, in my experience, disrupts the transcultural citizen's ability to construct an identity elsewhere."

Julie will be reading for Solas Nua on March 23rd at The Hillyer Art Space.

 

notes on an ending / nightfall 

there are too many street corners
too many dark places
to throw eyes around
too many feelings to swallow and hold
they get stuck in teeth, moshed in chests

- mingle

I have seen the towers from every angle
from bull island on bicycles
we reconstruct nature, resurrect trees
from the pier and the dock
from inside the walls of the room we go 
to learn how to see 
things in the world
that are not there:

yesterday, we stared from mountains
the highest view possible
while still standing on grass
- toes curled 
to the open side of the bay;
to the barb of the towers

 
 
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