Confetti Catching

Written while Saoirse Anton was Production-Poet-in-Residence with NoFit State Circus, Confetti Catching, is a collection of poems that draws back the curtain on the enigmatic world of the circus. “Many writers praise performance while letting labour vanish behind velvet. Anton keeps the kettle and the bread beside the trapeze. The backstage becomes a public realm of its own, and the poem becomes a civic document for the unseen.” – Mud, Circles and the Labour of Wonder: The Poetics of Attention in Saoirse Anton’s Poetry, Martin Smallridge.