"Verbs that Move Mountains": Essays and Interviews on Spoken Word Cultures Around the World

Trevien, Claire; Walsh, Tony; Walker, Sophia; Siobhan, Scherezade; Moreham, Sharon; McCrum, Rachel; Yousef, Alice S.; Manaka, Maakomele R.; Wilson, Catherine; Yi-Sheng, Ng

ISBN 10: 1981523049 / ISBN 13: 9781981523047

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "Verbs that Move Mountains": Essays and Interviews on Spoken Word Cultures Around the World
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1981523049
• ISBN 13: 9781981523047
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

"My body is the stage and my tongue is the page" - Maakomele R. Manaka. Verbs that move mountains is a glimpse at the way poets, promoters and storytellers engage with spoken word around the world. The anthology includes histories of specific scenes, hard looks at how to make spoken word a more accessible and open space in terms of sexuality, mental health, indigenous languages and more…. Academic analysis co-exists with personal reflections. Current topics, such as the ethics of honesty in slam poetry, or the very real dangers faced by many poets around the world, are also discussed. These essays give you snapshots of scenes from Singapore to New Zealand, via Leicester and Palestine.

About the Author

Claire Trévien founded Sabotage Reviews and runs its annual Saboteur Awards. She is the author of The Shipwrecked House (Penned in the Margins, 2013), which was the reader's choice in the Guardian's First Book Awards. It was subsequently turned into a one-woman show thanks to Arts Council Funding and toured the UK. Her other books include Astéronymes (Penned in the Margins, 2016) and Satire, Prints and Theatricality in the French Revolution (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2016). More blah can be found at clairetrevien.co.uk or you can tell her to stop complaining about train delays at @CTrevien