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Granby Park: a communal poem

Upstart, the arts collective that brought art and poetry to the streets of Dublin during the 2011 general election campaign, is for its second project transforming a vacant site in inner city Dublin into a pop up park and place of creativity for a period of one month, starting this coming Thursday 22 August.

I'm delighted to be involved in several ways with this brilliant initiative.

First up I'm directing an interactive poetry installation, scheduled to run throughout the project's duration, through which visitors to Granby Park will create a communal poem to mark the site. The poem will be composed using the 'exquisite corpse' technique: each contributor will add to the text while being aware of the last contributed element only.

So, visit Granby Park from 22 August for an array of free arts events, outdoor performances, cinema, live music, educational activities and a pop up cafĂ© - and help write the 'Granby Park' poem by responding to the last line with three or four of your own.

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