What Meets the Eye?
The Deaf Perspective
Published on 25. November 2021
156 pages
978-1-913665-49-4 (ISBN)
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A tree falls in the forest and I am/ there to make sure no one hears it./Beloved: It's not that I am/unwilling to be seized by sound,/ everyday I am undone by it.
Khando Langri
Our poets and authors were given the theme of Movement. They have intepreted this in many ways: movement as communication and connection, mobility, and stillness, being moved emotionally, movement within and after Lockdown, freedom of movement, and being part of a political movement.
Poems, short fiction and scripts from UK Deaf, deaf and hard of hearing writers. Our theme is movement.
Stories and poems from
Alison Campbell, Ayesha B. Gavin, Bryony Parkes, Charlie Swinbourne, Clare-Louise English, Colly Metcalfe, David Callin, Dee Cooke, Diane Dobson, DL Williams, Elizabeth Ward, Emma Lee, Hala Hashem, Janet Hatherley, Jay Caldwell, John Kefala Kerr, John Wilson, Josephine Dickinson, Julie Boden, Khando Langri, Ksenia Balabina, Liam O'Dell, Lianne Herbert, Lynn Buckle, Maggie Arbeid, Marilyn Longstaff, Maryam Ebrahim, Mary-Jayne Russell de Clifford, Melanie Jayne Ashford, Rodney Wood, Sahera Khan, Samantha Baines, Sarah Clarke, Sarah O Adedeji, Sophie Woolley, Terri Jade Donovan.
Khando Langri
Our poets and authors were given the theme of Movement. They have intepreted this in many ways: movement as communication and connection, mobility, and stillness, being moved emotionally, movement within and after Lockdown, freedom of movement, and being part of a political movement.
Poems, short fiction and scripts from UK Deaf, deaf and hard of hearing writers. Our theme is movement.
Stories and poems from
Alison Campbell, Ayesha B. Gavin, Bryony Parkes, Charlie Swinbourne, Clare-Louise English, Colly Metcalfe, David Callin, Dee Cooke, Diane Dobson, DL Williams, Elizabeth Ward, Emma Lee, Hala Hashem, Janet Hatherley, Jay Caldwell, John Kefala Kerr, John Wilson, Josephine Dickinson, Julie Boden, Khando Langri, Ksenia Balabina, Liam O'Dell, Lianne Herbert, Lynn Buckle, Maggie Arbeid, Marilyn Longstaff, Maryam Ebrahim, Mary-Jayne Russell de Clifford, Melanie Jayne Ashford, Rodney Wood, Sahera Khan, Samantha Baines, Sarah Clarke, Sarah O Adedeji, Sophie Woolley, Terri Jade Donovan.
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Lisa Kelly has single-sided deafness. She is also half Danish. Her first collection, A Map Towards Fluency, was published by Carcanet in 2019. Her poems have appeared in Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press) and Carcanet's New Poetries VII. Her pamphlets are Philip Levine's Good Ear (Stonewood Press) and Bloodhound (Hearing Eye). She is a regular host of poetry evenings at the Torriano Meeting House, London and is co-Chair of Magma Poetry. Lisa is co-editor of The Deaf Issue, Magma 69. She has been shortlisted four times for the Bridport Prize, longlisted for the National Poetry Competition twice and won the 2016 University of Lancaster (MA) 'Reading' Prize. She is currently studying British Sign Language, and her latest pamphlet, From The IKEA Back Catalogue, is published by New Walk Editions 2021. Sophie Stone is Co-Founder of Deaf & Hearing Ensemble Theatre Company and Associate Artist for The Watermill Theatre. She is an award-winning actor on stage and screen.
Writing includes: Beethoven Essay Series (BBC Radio 3), Multiple Scenes of Destruction (The Bunker Theatre), Maybe (Paines Plough/CTWIF), Butterfly (Talking Bodies/Hot Coals)
Writing includes: Beethoven Essay Series (BBC Radio 3), Multiple Scenes of Destruction (The Bunker Theatre), Maybe (Paines Plough/CTWIF), Butterfly (Talking Bodies/Hot Coals)
