Crow, Pirate, Fly
Published on 23. April 2026
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Paperback/Softback
978-1-913268-90-9 (ISBN)
Description
Crow, Pirate, Fly is a glitching manifesto of pain, pleasure, domination and submission. A power play of identities, authors, lovers and mothers, Hannah Silva's long-awaited second collection is subversive and compelling, intimate and estranging, animal and alien. Ten years in gestation, this genre-queering text began as a cut up of Kathy Acker's literary terrorism with E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, and now emerges as its own thing - dark, wild, innovative and pregnant with desire. There are no safe words.
"Strange, and poignant, and timely and timeless on care and gender and parenting." Rachael Allen
"I was swept along by Crow, Pirate, Fly: its raw emotive power, its mixture of constraint and overspill, and its orchestral evocation of birth and early mothering. This is a tremendous new collection from an endlessly inventive and surprising poet." Sarah Howe
"No writer I know in drama is as brave or as vulnerable. Hannah Silva talks to another hinterland of the mind." Fiona Shaw
"Strange, and poignant, and timely and timeless on care and gender and parenting." Rachael Allen
"I was swept along by Crow, Pirate, Fly: its raw emotive power, its mixture of constraint and overspill, and its orchestral evocation of birth and early mothering. This is a tremendous new collection from an endlessly inventive and surprising poet." Sarah Howe
"No writer I know in drama is as brave or as vulnerable. Hannah Silva talks to another hinterland of the mind." Fiona Shaw
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bad Betty Press
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
98 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913268-90-9 (9781913268909)
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Hannah Silva, author of My Child, the Algorithm, confronts big ideas through formal innovation and a seriously playful approach to language, voice and technology. Their work spans nonfiction, a record, eight BBC radio dramas and two decades of critically acclaimed poetry and performance.