June 16, 2022
Exploring the vulnerability, chaos and humour of what it means to be a patient, Karen Egan’s engaging theatre film Warrior, loosely based on her own experience with breast cancer, was recently streamed online via theatre partners Project Arts Centre, Dublin; The Everyman, Cork and Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow.
June 16, 2022
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Lyrics and music: Karen Egan
(Arranged by Karen Egan and Cian Boylan)
Copyright 2014 Karen Egan ©
June 9, 2022
Of course light unfurls from her body,
and the moon glows gold in the distance. [...]
June 9, 2022
She massages the scar,
small circles with an index finger
on my chest's red line. [...]
June 9, 2022
Why do I stand unmoved,
jaded as a tabloid, refusing
astonishment, not down on
my knees, but sober as stone—
surely 19th-century spelunkers,
pranksters, or WWII resistance
fighters passing hours in the belly
of the mountain made these
bison, these bearded horses. [...]