A Silent War: Interview with Mel McMahon (Asclepeion)

Details

Location

Newry

Year

2021

Date

Production 29/06/2021

Length

12min 05sec

Audio

sound

Format

Digital

colour

Source

Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive

Courtesy

Department for Communities

Rights Holder

Northern Ireland Screen, Ross Thompson

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

Writer Mel McMahon talks about his experience taking part in  A Silent War by Ross Thompson.

Notes

A Silent War began as a series of poems written during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. What poet, Ross Thompson has created is a new kind of war poetry, encountering the existential threat posed by the virus as previous generations would have responded to military conflicts. 

Ross Thompson invited other poets and writers to collaborate with him by making recordings of this suite of poems, reaching out at a time when Coronavirus, and the rules which were created to contain it, were creating a profound sense of disconnection for many people. Writers recorded poems in their own home and these recordings were shared online to raise funds for Cruse Bereavement Care.


Credits

Interviewee: Mel McMahon

Interviewer and filmmaker: Michael MacBroom

Poetry by Ross Thompson

A Silent War Creative Producers: Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell & Ann Donnelly

Funded by the Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen

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