Poetic Fragments (2024 - onwards)

These fragments accompany my filmic breath practice; short poems composed in rhythm with a bodily ecology shaped by endometriosis, Irish transgenerational memory, and transnational feminist philosophies of breath.

Written from hospital beds, temporary coastal rooms, and spaces of post-surgical movement, they emerge from suspended, non-linear time. While many arise from stillness, they also carry traces of movement; the rhythms of travel, collective practice, post-surgical emergence, and the slow unfolding of reworlding. As the daughter who arrives later, I write through layers of transgenerational memory, holding traces of my Irish mother and grandmother. The fragments hold the shifts between stillness and motion, rupture and reconfiguration, realising that each moment of movement or pause reshapes the self anew

Alongside works such as Salt Breath – Not Yet the Sea, they offer a poetics of shared air—where breath hovers, disturbs, and drifts across geographies, bodies and relations. These fragments become gestures toward the world, responding to urgent questions around bodily autonomy, environmental exposure, and collective care. They ask how we breathe together across unequal and inherited conditions.

By bringing a practice shaped by chronic illness, feminist philosophy, and transnational embodied experience, the work fosters multi-positional encounters rooted in lived experience, somatic attention, and collective breath. It offers a feminist methodology of sensing, sharing, and surviving otherwise—grounded in the quiet, radical possibilities of “shared air.”

Some of these fragments have also emerged through listening and movement practices within embodied workshops. In these shared spaces, poems are not only read but activated; held in breath, touch, silence, and gesture. Played alongside film fragments, they form part of a co-constructed atmosphere, shaped by collective presence. These workshops extend the practice of poetic listening, asking how breath moves between bodies, and how language becomes a porous, relational trace across space, memory, and time.