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Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word
Author: David Stavanger
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Retail Price: | $29.95 |
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ISBN: 9780702262593
Format: Paperback
Published: August 2019
Published By: University Of Queensland Press
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Published: August 2019
Published By: University Of Queensland Press
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Over the past decade, Spoken Word has established itself as a central part of contemporary Australian & New Zealand poetry. For the first-time ever, these voices are transported from the stage to the page, captured in print so that the spoken-word experience can be shared with a new and broader audience.Solid Air showcases the work of more than 100 performance poets - combining elements of slam, hip-hop and experimental performance poetry - to deliver an unforgettable reading experience that is both literary and loud. Poems capture themes of modern culture, identity and resistance.
Contributors include- Ali Cobby Eckermann, Hera Lindsay Bird, Claire G. Taika Waititi, Courtney Barnett, Michelle Law, Hannah Gadsby, Luka Lesson and many, many more.Over the past decade, Spoken Word has established itself as a central part of contemporary Australian & New Zealand poetry. For the first-time ever, these voices are transported from the stage to the page, captured in print so that the spoken-word experience can be shared with a new and broader audience.
Solid Air showcases the work of more than 100 performance poets - combining elements of slam, hip-hop and experimental performance poetry - to deliver an unforgettable reading experience that is both literary and loud. Poems capture themes of modern culture, identity and resistance.
Contributors include- Ali Cobby Eckermann, Hera Lindsay Bird, Claire G. Taika Waititi, Courtney Barnett, Michelle Law, Hannah Gadsby, Luka Lesson and many, many more.
David Stavanger is an award-winning poet, performer, editor and cultural producer. He is the author of the The Special (UQP, 2014), which won the 2015 Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize, and co-directed the Queensland Poetry Festival from 2015 to 2017. He has been at the forefront of establishing poetry slam and spoken word in Australia.
Anne-Marie Te Whiu is a cultural producer who co-directed the Queensland Poetry Festival from 2015 to 2017 and is currently an Editor at Verity La. Born in Australia, she is a proud descendant of the Te Rarawa tribe on her father's side.