Csilla Toldy

I signed up for the NaPoWriMo for poetry month. I will write a poem a day, although I cannot promise that I will post them all here. Yet, to celebrate this crazy idea, here is No.1: Through steady rain fall I hear bird song, staccato on April’s Fool Day Day 2: (2nd April) Secret The rabbits floated on a makeshift boat White-purple sky reflected on water. Surely, I was one of them. What coat, brown, black or white? It did not matter. It is enough to say we were many, a grou

Earlier in the year, Headstuff published a poem in their Revolution NOW series: Vertical appeared in the fist issue of A New Ulster as well, edited by Amos Greig. I suppose, this is one of my "more accessible" poems. I like writing about big cities, perhaps, because I live in a small village. I find cities often inspirational and exciting, but also draining. #ANewUlster #Headstuff #poems

Colin Dardis, the editor of Lagan Online asked me to submit a poem. It was very hard to choose. Eventually, he chose Berlin from a group of four poems. This poem had a very long gestational time, but the final version appeared after I had spent a day in Berlin sightseeing on my own in 2013. We had been shooting an art documentary there with the Melchiorsgrund Theatre Company playing Die Gute Zeit by Ernst Barlach. I had a whole day on my hand after the shoot and the city impr

a flash story on visual verse.

I attended the Playwrights' Bootcamp organised by Accidental Theatre a couple of weeks ago. It was an amazing experience, including a day with Bouffon artists Gemma and David from Amadan. Now Accidental Theatre is putting on a new show in Belfast. Most importantly and relevant for me, they seek out the most interesting venues for their shows. This time, it will be at Riddell's Warehouse is a four-storey building constructed 1865 - 67 by Thomas Jackson & Son for John Riddell &