No-one‘s songs. Odyscenes
To read: the Odyssey! To listen, closely: to all the voices behind.
Behind what is written and what has been told. Voices besides.
Voices above and below. Listen to them.
Who wants to tell their own story, again and again: Penelope,
Eurykleia, Kalypso, Telemach, Eumaios.
Ships sneak along coasts, one Polyphem is counting sheep, and
one Nobody gets away with it. One Phoenician woman
contemplates her revenge and perishes in the attempt, but
one child is kidnapped. And what are sirens’ dreams?
A cycle of poems, fotovisualisations and prose scenes based on
the Odyssey, currently completed in German.
© Patricia Falkenburg 2022
Project 1
The German version—Niemandslieder—has been
included in the Brigitte und Gerhard Hartmann
collection to be archived in the German Museum
of Books and Writing in Leipzig.
Penelope (1)
I am
Viewing the sea.
Every day after day and each.
My eyes hold an ocean.
Penelope. 1 and „Blown.“ published online on
Mediterranean Poetry, edited by Anders Dahlgren
No-one‘s songs. Odyscenes
To read: the Odyssey! To listen, closely: to all the voices
behind. Behind what is written and what has been told.
Voices besides. Voices above and below. Listen to them.
Who wants to tell their own story, again and again:
Penelope, Eurykleia, Kalypso, Telemach, Eumaios.
Ships sneak along coasts, one Polyphem is counting sheep,
and one Nobody gets away with it. One Phoenician woman
contemplates her revenge and perishes in the attempt, but
one child is kidnapped. And what are sirens’ dreams?
A cycle of poems,
fotovisualisations
and prose scenes
based on the
Odyssey,
currently completed
in German.
Penelope. 1 and
„Blown.“ published
online on
Mediterranean
Poetry, edited by
Anders Dahlgren
© Patricia Falkenburg 2022
Project 1
The German version—Niemandslieder—has been
included in the Brigitte und Gerhard Hartmann
collection to be archived in the German Museum
of Books and Writing in Leipzig.
Penelope (1)
I am
Viewing the sea.
Every day after day and each.
My eyes hold an ocean.
