Ragtag Giggagon

  A surrealist poet called Kevin Bateman contacted me a month ago on Twitter and asked me to perform at a spoken word event he was holding in a forest in Galway. My immediate reaction was to say "I don't do poetry and I don't really do performance stuff." He said, in effect, "Ah sure, go on." I said "I dunno." After a couple of weeks, he messaged me again: "Are you performing at the show?" I said "I dunno." On Friday night, he asked me again. The show was on at 2pm on Saturday afternoon. "I'll come to it," I said, "but I dunno." The event, held in the open air in Merlin Woods, on the eastern outskirts of Galway, took a small trek to reach. There's an environmental group, Friends of Merlin Woods , and Caroline from that organisation was good enough to lead us through the forest on a quick guided tour before we arrived at our stage, An Néad (or The Nest). Kevin kicked things off. The short poems Kevin ...

Kevin Bateman, a poet from Galway, is creating an event where words will be spoken to the woods... but will they answer back? The event shall take place in the Nest Area or An Néad If you are coming into Galway City from the old Dublin road take the Second right after the Martin Roundabout onto the entrance of Merlin Park Hospital there is a car park on the left hand side of the road as you come in. All Artists and Guests shall all meet there and be taken on a tour of Merlin Woods and the performance will take place at the Nest Area or An Néad. Contact 0858228976