'Cadogan Street, girl with Ribena box' attempts to describe a moment of complete absorption: a stranger on a Glasgow street, a child, stopping to sip from a juice box. Selected from a series of sketches that witness people in states of intense concentration, observed over days Kilmartin spent walking Glasgow’s inner city grid, the poem is expanded, looped, erased and supplemented in an editing process that, like the writing, tries to get inside the unexpected corners of a consuming, if fleeting, everyday experience.
Written, spoken and edited by Ash Kilmartin with bass improvisation by Dada Phone.
Produced as part of a residency/exchange with Radiophrenia and WORM, Rotterdam.