CARPET MUNCHER Ireland & UK Tour
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.
© Carol Cummins
Recent publications
Abridged, Poetry Ireland Review, Skylight 47, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Ethel Zine, Danse Macabre, The Opiate, Cream Scene Carnival Magazine and more...
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still, I look to the moon
26/06/25 - Skylight 47, Issue 20
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Practicing Divination
05/07/24 - Abridged 0-101: Rebecca
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Mothman Lives
19/01/24 - The Ethel Zine, Volume 10 - Winter 2023
Order a hand-bound paper copy containing the first version of this poem, originally titled Portrait of the Artist as a Genderless Void
Contemporary hauntings
Mythological poetry
Performance Poetry
© Coco Yael
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.
UPCOMING
SCOTLAND: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
IRELAND: Irish Writers Centre | Culture Night 2025, LASTA at Siamsa Tíre 2025, Bram Stoker Festival 2025
PAST SHOWS & FEATURES
IRELAND: Galway Theatre Festival 2025, Dublin Fringe Festival 2024, Bram Stoker Festival 2024, Stoneybatter Festival 2024, Dublin’s Finest, The Circle Sessions (awarded Best Performer ‘23, Best Project ‘24), Mystify, La Mansarda
FRANCE: Spoken Word Paris, Paris Lit Up
FINLAND: Runoviikko Festival 2022
GERMANY: Berlin Spoken Word
Online International Events: Nuyorican Poets Café, Cultivating Voices Live, Lime Square Poets
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An excavation of the closet enacted by the legendary Mothman, weaving poetry into textile.
Dublin Fringe —> GTF —> EdFringe 2024-2025
A participatory storytelling experience, bringing to life the darkest themes of Irish folklore
Bram Stoker Festival 2024
A Faustian poetic ritual, aiming to summon the demon of inspiration through the means of sacrifice.
Spoken Word Paris 2023
An emotional bestiary, from Icarus’ stray feathers to the Minotaur’s heart, in dialogue with Ancient Greek rhapsody.
Runoviikko Festival 2022
Ken hosting on the theme of “Plastic” (Montmartre, 2023)
© Sabine Dundure
The Local Priest hosting on the theme of “Confessions” (République, 2022)
Moth Manifesto
Eat the Storms poetry podcast S05E12
featured reading Dublin poem, Ushanka and Noah’s Wife
Féminin neutre
2022 linguistic experiments
2021 pandemic poetry collages