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Playground
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- Book Synopsis
- First commissioned for the Verve Poetry Festival, Playground is a full-length group poetry and spoken word show that captures the sounds and experiences of growing up alongside friends and strangers. Featuring performers who went to school in four different countries, it highlights not just how universal some of those experiences are, but also how adult life features its own kind of playground dynamics: camaraderie, isolation, reprieve and much, much more. Funny, deeply moving, engrossing, Playground is group performance poetry at its finest by four incredible individual poets who become something astonishing when they collaborate.
- About The Author
- In 2018, after winning the national student competition UniSlam, Sean Colletti, Anne Gill, Hannah Ledlie and Hannah Swingler formed the Second City Poets: a collective intent on creating experimental and collaborative work which pushes the form. Together they were commissioned to write a full-length spoken word show for the 2019 Verve Poetry Festival, and so Playground was created. The group's performance at Verve won the Second City Poets a Special Mention in the Sabotage Awards 'Best Collaborative Work' category. Sadly Hannah Swingler was unable to tour the show, so Kieran Hayes joined the collective and the four revised it into its current form. This book has been produced to accompany their six nights performing Playground at the Scottish Poetry Library during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019. The Second City Poets take their name from the fact that each member grew up in a different place around the world, but each found a second home in Birmingham, the UK's second largest city.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781912565313
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Verve Poetry Press, (01 August 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 56
- Weight
- 95 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 138 x 5 mm
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