Kalle - The hole there in the floor

Kalle Ryan from the wonderful Brownbread MIxtape gave us this great poem about the people in the pub's who are caught between their dreams and the drink. Something I think we can all sympathise with in this country.

[@millienegron2802]

This is amazing! Thank you Storymap Dublin for giving Rickey the opportunity to intern with you!

[@sjswords]

Jaysis I need a drink after that!

[@sweeney1965]

"I only know the Dublin scene of performance poetry and that, with exceptions who know who they are, has become pretty boring and repetitive. A lot of one-trick ponies around and when I go to events I often hear the same people reading the same poems as I would have heard three or even five years ago. And a lot of performance poems, if they are any good atall, are only good the first time you hear them. In fairness, it’s simple-minded stuff, most of the time. And the fact that it so often, in its own context, comes across as original or exciting is as indicative of the decline of public intelligence, that is of a low level of consciousness among both performers and audience, as it is of anything inherently dynamic about the art - something which is hardly surprising after forty years of a reactionary intellectual climate" - Dave Lordan, on performance.