Leyla Josephine

Broschiertes Buch

In Public/In Private

Beschreibung

Leyla Josephine's first collection of poetry unmasks secrets, faith, shame, lust,and death unapologetically. She fearlessly reaches through every page and asks 'Have you felt this too?'.

Autor

Leyla Josephine is a poet, film and theatre maker originally from Glasgow, now based in Prestwick. In 2014, Leyla won Hammer and Tongue's UK National Spoken Word Slam Championship at Royal Albert Hall. Her solo theatre shows have taken the UK by storm. Hopeless was runner up for Saboteur's Best Spoken Word Show 2018, and documentation of the show was published by Speculative Books by the same title. Daddy Drag won the Autopsy Award 2019 which celebrates artists making groundbreaking work in Scotland. Leyla's short film Groom was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA 2022. Leyla's poem 'Good with our hands' was included in Scottish Poetry Library's Best Scottish Poems of 2020. She has been included in anthologies such as The Edwin Morgan Centenary Collection, Neu! Reekie! #UntitledThree and Choice Words: Writers on Abortion alongside the likes Margaret Atwood, Audre Lorde and Gloria Steinem. She loves ABBA, dogs, talking to her houseplants and being in the sea.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Burning Eye Books
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9781913958350
• ISBN-10: 1913958353
• Artikelnr.: 64360392