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The House of the Interpreter

  • ISBN-13: 9781800173125
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Lisa Kelly
  • Price: AUD $32.99
  • Stock: 6 in stock
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  • Local release date: 12/07/2023
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 140g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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This second collection is a plea for a broader understanding of how we communicate and embrace diversity, exploring how oppression of those considered 'other' has parallels with rising fascism.
Lisa Kelly has single-sided deafness. She is also half Danish. Her debut, A Map Towards Fluency (2019), was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. She is co-Chair of Magma Poetry and a regular host of poetry evenings at the Torriano Meeting House, London. She has a Signature Level 6 qualification in British Sign Language. Her poems have been selected for anthologies, including Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press) and the Forward Book of Poetry. In 2021, she coedited What Meets the Eye, an anthology of poetry and short fiction by UK Deaf, deaf and Hard of Hearing writers for Arachne Press. She teaches poetry and performance, and is a freelance technology journalist. To escape noise, she walks and looks out for, among other things, fungi.
* Second collection from half-Danish, half-deaf poet Lisa Kelly (debut was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021). * Recipient of a Society of Authors’ Foundation Grant to write this collection, it focuses on sign language, d/Deafness and uses images of the secret life of fungi to explore what is lost by ignoring other ways of knowing. * A plea for a broader understanding of how we communicate and embrace diversity, exploring how oppression of life forms considered ‘other’ has parallels with how intolerance and fascism can flourish.
'Lisa Kelly searchingly translates for us the intimate connections between language and the body, between symbol and experience.' - Jane Draycott
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