My Cultural Life Carmel Winters' work can be seen at the Dublin Theatre Festival Cork-born Carmel Winters is a playwright and director. For The Maestro and the Mosquita she has teamed up with composer Stephen Warbeck and Theatre Lovett at Project, September 12-15 for Dublin Theatre Festival. POETRY Liz Quirke At a campfire recently under a full moon, a woman recited a poem of her own.
It was about the experience of becoming a mother, but without being the one to give birth. It resonated deeply with me, being myself the partner of a woman who is an “Other Mother”. The woman turned out to be Kerry poet Liz Quirke and I’ve been reading her two collections since.
They’re so dense in meaning and I recognise in them both an urgent need to express and a need to make it only fully available to those who have also looked at life from upside down and inside out. FILM Anatomy of a Fall It’s not often I watch a film and almost immediately watch it again but Anatomy of a Fall prompted me to do just that. I loved how it investigates a marriage from all available perspectives.
Their blind son’s point of view is perhaps the most insightful – he seems to see beyond the appearance of things – but ultimately the film acknowledges there is so much that is unknowable about our relationships. It keeps our relations curious, open and rich in possibility. There are so many ways of joining the dots.
And so many dots that are invisible to the naked eye. AUDIO Lakshmi mantras Whe.