Bloomsday Soapbox Poetry for Ulysses 2.2 | Episode 12: What Is My Nation
Thu, 16 Jun
|Dublin 1
To mark a century of Ulysses, ANU, Landmark Productions and MoLI have joined together to present Ulysses 2.2, a year-long, nationwide odyssey of creative responses to the 18 episodes that chronicle an ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom.
Time & Location
16 Jun 2022, 17:00 – 19:00
Dublin 1, 23 Jervis St, North City, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
About the event
In celebration of Bloomsday on Thursday 16 June, six leading contemporary poets will be performing on the streets of Smithfield in response to Episode 12: Cyclops of Ulysses. John Cummins, Sophie Meehan, Emmet Kirwan, Trudie Gorman, Meg Mulcahy, and Grace Wilentz will be performing work that speaks to the episode's themes of citizenship, identity, cultural and national belonging, myth, and hyperbole, and Dublin itself.
These free pop-up public poetry performances hosted by Poetry Ireland as part of Ulysses 2.2 will be taking place on the streets of Smithfield in three locations near the site of the episode, Barney Kiernan's pub on Little Britain Street, from 5pm - 7pm.
Commissioned by ANU, Landmark Productions and MoLI in partnership with Poetry Ireland for Ulysses 2.2.
John Cummins has been writing for over 20 years and performing since early 2010. He is a three-time Leinster Poetry Slam Champion, and the 2013/2014 All-Ireland Poetry Slam Champion.…