Show Me Life - Softcover

Torc, Liv

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909136549 ISBN 13: 9781909136540

Verlag: Burning Eye Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

It doesn’t matter how successful you are, or how many times you have dyed your hair purple and walked out onto the stage of a local folk festival holding a note book and a banjolele. It makes no odds how many pairs of boots you own, or sex you have had with strangers. It doesn’t even matter how many times you have scooped up the smashed up porridge of your heart and poured it back into the jelly mould of your ribs. What matters is that we keep moving forward, despite ourselves, despite everyone else… that we remember that life is not a hamster wheel but an ocean, a road, a dirt track; or whatever crap metaphor you can think of which basically says: grow up and up and up and up. Get old with hunger, don’t cling onto what was and starve. Show Me Life is all about that. It peers into dark corners of sexuality and strolls along Italian city streets. It free-falls into love and then tests that love over and over. It gets sad and thoughtful, pregnant and angry and then splinters into a billion pieces and becomes something quite different. Something with a lot more to lose.

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Liv Torc is a spoken word artist and producer who plunders the vast caverns and dormant volcanoes of the human and planetary condition. A Radio 4 Slam Winner, a former Bard of Exeter, host of the Rainbow Fish Speakeasy and current co-host of the Hip Yak Poetry Shack. Liv runs Haiflu, the Hip Yak Poetry School and the spoken word stage at WOMAD. In 2019 her climate change in-the-face-of-motherhood poem The Human Emergency went viral across the world. She also performed at Glastonbury Festival on the Poetry and Words stage and represented Somerset for the BBC’s National Poetry Day celebrations. In 2020 she was chosen as one of four Siren Poets by Cape Farewell for a commission on climate change in the time of COVID. She also wrote and filmed a poem for the BBC’s Make a Difference campaign. Liv is the creator of the Haiflu, a UK wide poetry, photography and film project that uses crowdsourced haiku and images to tell the social history of life under lockdown. Haiflu has been featured in The Times, The Sunday Times and Mslexia magazine and is one of the only poetry initiatives ever aired on the BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme. Her first published book Show Me Life was released in 2015 by Burning Eye. She is also the proud author of the family friendly poetry book Banana Poems, released in January 2021.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Burning Eye Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1909136549
• ISBN 13: 9781909136540
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 104
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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