CARPET MUNCHER Ireland & UK Tour

Culture Ireland Edinburgh Showcase 2025

A solo Spoken Word drag performance celebrating queer resistance. It brings the urban legend of the 'Mothman' to life, using vibrant surrealist costuming to explore themes of queer alienation, metamorphosis, cross-border solidarity and homoerotic hot-hub encounters.

This show invites you to face the pest in your closet. Is it hungry for light? More creature than human? Join this intimate, frenzied call to celebrate the unknowable within us all.

WHERE IS MY POETRY?

QUIZZ: Find A Poem

HOW TO SMUGGLE IRELAND INTO IRELAND

NIPC/PA/TEXT/Box9(17)

Pushcart Prize nomination for A Break-Up Poem from the Cyclops to Nobody

Intro To Body Washing

27/04/26 - Abridged 0-107, ‘Elixir’
With visual art by Vinod Venkapalli

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Cyclops To Nobody + A Letter To Jean-Paul Sartre (2 Poems)

01/11/25 - The Storms V
PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATION
Audio: Eat The Storms Podcast

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still, I look to the moon

26/06/25 - Skylight 47, Issue 20

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‘Practicing Divination In The Peels Of A Moment Stripped Bare’ in Abridged 0-100, ‘Rebecca’, Derry, 2024

‘Mothman Lives’ in The Ethel Zine #10, Colorado, 2024 | to order a hand-bound copy

‘All Four Toothbrushes Have Teeth’ in Heavy Feather Review: Bad Survivalist, Michigan, 2024

‘Ushanka’ in The Banyan Review, 2022

‘Blackbeard’ in Poetry Ireland Review #138: An Eavan Boland Special Issue, Dublin, 2022

‘Silver Spoon, after Countee Cullen’ in Potter, O’Driscoll & Neese, Not the Time to be Silent: Collected Poems, Hovering Press, Limerick, 2022

‘A Vampire Sees The Sunrise For The First Time’ (2 poems) in the Beltway Poetry Quarterly, vol. 23:1, Washington,DC, 2022

‘A Poem For The Poolbeg Lighthouse’ hosted by Lime Square Poets, Limerick & Cork, 2022

‘Follower’ (3 poems) in The Opiate, vol. 29, Paris, 2022

‘Nightmare’ (3 poems) in Danse Macabre 101, ‘Capriccio (Porte d’Entrée)’, Nevada, 2022

‘Noah’s Wife’ (4 poems) in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, vol. 6: ‘Druids of Cernunnos’, UK, 2021

‘Clepsydra’ in James O’Toole, The Galway Advertiser: Vox Galvia, 2021

ZINES: ‘Petal’ in Salon Rógaire (2025), ‘Two Bros Chilling In A Hot Tub’ in Teeth & Other Bones vol. 2 (2025), Moth Manifesto by Jo Morrigan Black (2023)

WHAT IS PERFORMANCE POETRY?

poetry embodied by a voice, a face disguised, a room transformed / poetry collectivised in the intensity of a gathering / poetry blending with myth, song, storytelling / poetry as oral tradition / poetry given tangible form

Jo first descended into poetry in the basement of Spoken Word Paris, where they hosted weekly events from 2021 to 2023. Today, their performances combine Spoken Word, physical theatre and surrealist costume design, in order to celebrate the queer and the unknowable in us all.

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PAST SHOWS & FEATURES

IRELAND: The Linen Hall 2026, Bewley’s Café: Craicly Stories 2026, Irish Writers Centre 2025, The Workman’s Club: Bram Stoker Festival 2024-2025, Poetry Ireland: Salon Rógaire 2025, Siamsa Tíre 2025, Galway Theatre Festival 2025, The Button Factory: Mystify 2025, Dublin Fringe 2024, Stoneybatter Festival 2024, Dublin’s Finest, The Circle Sessions (awarded Best Performer ‘23, Best Project ‘24), The Cobblestone, Lime Square Poets

SCOTLAND: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025

FRANCE: Spoken Word Paris, Paris Lit Up

FINLAND: Runoviikko Festival 2022

GERMANY: Berlin Spoken Word

Online International Festivals: Cultivating Voices Live: Poetry Pride Parade 2021 featuring Minnie Bruce Pratt, Nuyorican Poets Café Paris X NYC 2021