Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun) Colorfield each piece offers the performer

each piece offers the performer the chance to explore their own interpretation of the structural frameworks suggested by the composer

These poems unmake the world around them

Ina Friebe

The spatter of sauce in a pan

was uns kaputt machen wird

Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun) Colorfield each piece offers the performerMeet the naladir (cloud watchers) and radir (stargazers) from our past who, without the luxury of Met ireann at their disposal, observed birds, trees, animals, as well as markers on land and sea for signs of weather change. The sheer richness and variety of terms they amassed reveal the closeness with which they observed the world around them. Swallows flying low foretold rain. The herons behaviour offered many hints: Aimsir chrua thirim nuair a bhonn