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"Raises the stakes for the rest of us writers" ISABEL WAIDNER "An
important new talent" FIONA SHAW "Bold and inventive . . . I loved
it" IRENOSEN OKOJIE "Silva's book asks all the right questions"
JOANNA WALSH "Curious, queer, whip-smart, hilarious and tender"
GAIL MCCONNELL A living exploration of undoing and redoing queer
single parenting and love, in conversation with an AI algorithm and
a toddler. As Hannah Silva navigates friendship, dating and life as
a queer single parent in London, her toddler and the algorithm
contribute humour, play and insight. With the help/disruption of
these unreliable narrators, Hannah deconstructs her story, and
constructs a new one. She unravels everything she has been taught
to want, finding alternative ways of thinking, loving and parenting
today. Queer, creative, sexy and compassionate, My Child, the
Algorithm is non-fiction at its finest.
A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation The Independent 50 Best
Summer Reads Welcome to a strange new world in which a poem can be
written using only one vowel, processed through computer code,
collaged from film trailers, compiled from Facebook status updates,
hidden inside a Sudoku puzzle, and even painted on sheep to
demonstrate Quantum Theory. Discover a multitude of new and unusual
poetic forms - from tweet to time-splice, and from skinny
villanelle to breakbeat sonnet - in this inspiring and inventive
anthology. Adventures in Form features over ninety poems by
forty-six contributors including Patience Agbabi, Christian Bok,
Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams, Roddy Lumsden, Ian McMillan, Paul
Muldoon, Ruth Padel and Hannah Silva. Edited and introduced by Tom
Chivers.
Forms of Protest collects together for the first time the work of
Hannah Silva, a poet and playwright known for her fearless and
wholly original vocal performances. These poems and experimental
texts oscillate between sense and nonsense, meaning and music,
always testing the limits of language to represent the lived world.
Words are felt both as arbitrary signs and as urgent physiological
acts. Ranging in form from sound poems to collaged spam email, from
monologues to lists of insults, and embracing subjects as diverse
as war, sexuality and giant squid, Silva's poetry is like nothing
else you've read. Deconstructing the defunct languages of political
and literary discourse, Forms of Protest claims a new space, a
liminal zone between things as they sound - and things as they are.
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