Forms of Protest - Softcover

Hannah Silva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190805817X ISBN 13: 9781908058171

Publisher: Penned in the Margins, 2013

Synopsis

Forms of Protest collects together for the first time the work of Hannah Silva, a poet and playwright known for her fearless and wholly original vocal performances. These poems and experimental texts oscillate between sense and nonsense, meaning and music, always testing the limits of language to represent the lived world. Words are felt both as arbitrary signs and as urgent physiological acts. Ranging in form from sound poems to collaged spam email, from monologues to lists of insults, and embracing subjects as diverse as war, sexuality and giant squid, Silva's poetry is like nothing else you've read. Deconstructing the defunct languages of political and literary discourse, Forms of Protest claims a new space, a liminal zone between things as they sound - and things as they are.

About this title

About the Author

Hannah Silva is a writer and theatre maker whose work often starts from a playful interrogation of language, voice and form. She has performed at the Tokyo Design Centre, Krikri International Festival of Polyphony in Belgium, Poetry Hearings in Berlin and throughout the UK at festivals including Latitude, the Edinburgh Fringe, Ledbury Festival and Stanza. Her solo show, Opposition toured nationally 2011-12 and was described by What's on Stage as 'radical, political, courageous'. Hannah has written for Radio 3 and regularly appears on The Verb. Her play 'The Disappearance of Sadie Jones' is currently on tour.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penned in the Margins
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190805817X
• ISBN 13: 9781908058171
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80