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'Solid Air attempts to physicalise what spoken word poetry is (and can be) —that which one is compelled to speak / that which one cannot hold silent. Spoken word is more than hard-earned memorisation or performance technique. It is a lived and living thing: within the skin of the text, the song of the line, the architecture of sound. Performance poetry is on one level ephemeral but that doesn't mean the writing can't endure beyond the moment. On these pages sit words chat have often first been performed in a live context to an audience. The pulse of those moments still hangs between the lines.' (Introduction)
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Epigraph: 'Language lives when you speak it. Let it be heard. The worst thing that can happen to words is that they go unsaid.' Kate Tempest
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