performance poetry shows
WIDSITH THE SCOP - AKA S.V.WOLFLAND - PERFORMANCE POET
S.V.Wolfland has performed at numerous festivals and events including the Glastonbury Festival, Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Bristol Poetry Festival, Apples and Snakes S.W. launch, work for the Poetry Can, featured guest poet at Uncut Poets, Salisbury Poetry Cafe etc..
SHOWS INCLUDE;
Widsith the Scop
Poetry, some in tales, from humanity’s origins; ‘Widsith the Poet, Egil the Viking & King Gilgamesh’ - in fine modern translations. Sources are; Anglo-Saxon poetry jewels from the word hoard of the C10th Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book - from the brooding curse of ‘The Wanderer’ to heartbreaking starcrossed love in ‘Wulf & Eadwacer’; Egil Skallagrimsson – Iceland’s greatest warrior-poet, violent, funny, and resolute; The Epic of Gilgamesh – pre-Biblical fire and brimstone from mankind’s oldest story from the Third Millennium BC; And the Elder Edda – words of 1000 year-old good advice! With drum, drinking horns, sword, staff, sheepskin etc.
The Book of Contentions
‘Fractious fragments for fractured times’ – bizarre sequence of 150 aphorisms - twisted, comical, urbane, tragic, startling and downright quirky. Meet the Book & its two friends, the Shepherdess and the Shepherd, and come through the hall of Contentions. ‘This book is a nice book, and if you don’t like it, it will scream until it’s sick...It can...’ ! Told with mime & verve - Weird, witty & wired.
For more details about The Book of Contentions and the others in the trilogy, the Books of Indictments and Offences, see the links menu, above right.
The Maze of Love
A tale of friendship, passion and love in a sequence of twelve original poems in widely different styles, performed as a theatrical/storytelling monologue about a love triangle of fairytale figures set amidst magenta organza and confetti. Charting what happens when Circe meets Odysseus...and his best mate, the Huntsman...
