BND Magazine 3.0 Lockdown Edition

The landscape of performing arts in Ireland is changing with the onset of the Covid 19 virus and subsequent lockdown procedures since March of last year. Venues have closed. Some never to re-open. Festivals have been cancelled and gigs postponed.

In light of these changes Boundless & Bare presents BND Magazine’s Lockdown Edition. This issue provides a retrospective outlook on 2020 and the effects Covid 19 has had on the spoken word community.  

Highlights FROM BND Magazine The Lockdown Edition:

• Cover Interview: Belfast slam poet and writer Elizabeth McGeown.

• Discussion with Director Maureen Kennelly on the issues facing Arts Council Grants and its relationship with the spoken word community.

• Exclusive Q&As with Galway rapper Celaviedmai, Longford spoken word poet FeliSpeaks, and internationally acclaimed UK spoken word poet Hollie McNish..

• ‘Poet in Lockdown’ interview series with USA spoken word artist Beau Williams, screenwriter and poet Conor Quinlan from Galway, and actress, playwright and performance artist Sarah Richardson from London.

• Event Guide featuring spoken word events happening online and a new featured account of online Communities and Groups on Social Media.

• Comments by Alana Daly Mulligan on discrepancies in pay for spoken word artists, Abby Oliveira on spoken word and music infusion, and Colm Mac Gerailt on Irish Language and the Spoken Word. 

• Reviews featuring Imelda May’s Spoken Word EP ‘Slip of the Tongue’, as well as Podcasts, Poetry Collections by Irish and International Spoken Word Artists. 

HIGHLIGHTS from VOL. 1 ISSUE 2:

• Feature Cover: commemoration of Raven and his 15 years as a performance artist in Ireland. 

• ‘History of Spoken Word’ series of accounts with interviews with Paul Casey, Karl Parkinson, Maighread Medbh and Raven.

• Interviews with internationally acclaimed spoken word artists Shane Koyczan and Andrea Gibson.

• Event Guide featuring spoken word events happening all around the country.

• Essays on the storytelling community by David Jackson, Being Muslim in the Dublin spoken word community by Raneem Saleh, people with disabilities in the spoken word Waterford scene by Derbhile Graham.

• Event Spotlights: spoken word in Galway, Ireland’s only Irish speaking poetry slam, Liú Lúnasa in Belfast, Indiana poet Kimberly Campanello’s spoken word project MOTHERBABYHOME.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM VOL 1. ISSUE 1

• An Introduction to Spoken Word in Ireland

• Peter Murphy on ‘The Life and Rhymes of of William S. Burroughs’

• Abby Oliveira on the hip-hop culture in Northern Ireland

• Student Life and Spoken Word by award-winning spoken word artists Paul McNamara, Caoimhe Donnelly from Dublin, Alana Daly Mulligan from Cork, and Irish Times Hennessy New Writer of 2017 Will Keohane from Limerick.

• Spoken word theatre emerging in Dublin and a review of ‘See True’ and ‘Boy Child’ by FeliSpeaks and Dagogo Hart.

• Reviews on Alice Kinsella’s Sexy Fruit, newcomer Tómas Hade’s 'You're So Much Smaller in the Sunlight', The Dublin Story Slam storytelling podcast, The Circle Sessions’ Second Album featuring music, poetry and comedy.