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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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    y separately published work icon Solid Air : Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word David Stavanger (editor), Anne-Marie Te Whiu (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2019 15681951 2019 anthology poetry

    '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.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2019     pg. xvii
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