POETRY PERFORMANCE LECTURE

In this new performance piece, set on the island of Hydra, where cars are banned, stray cats outnumber the population, and forest fires encroach, we will be forced to approach language differently – subjugating the ‘I’-centric quality of historic lyric to include the non-human, as both subject and collaborative force.

In creating this ecopoetics of intimacy, the shame of romantic egotism becomes a generative space for thinking collectively about the earth and our place within it. This is a performance in which the speaker wants desperately to communicate love in a different way, using the art form best suited to interrogating language, interrogating selfhood: poetry.

The Verve Performance-Lecture (a stylised form of teaching-as-performance, originating from contemporary art practice), invites a poet to create a new piece of work fusing academic discourse with poetry and spoken word on a subject of their choosing. Brought to you in association with the Poetry School.