Synopsis
Muttertongue: what is a word in utter space by Lillian Allen (a dub poet, writer, and Juno Award winner), Gary Barwin (poet, writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer, and educator), and Gregory Betts (whose writing explores the boundaries between self, other, and alien – the radical other) is a collaborative collection that crackles in its exploration of land, language, and page space. Combining the intensity of Dub Poetry with the intricacies of experimental poetics, this collection presents a sonorous soundscape echoing with the question of where (and why) is here (hear).
The book opens with a dialogue between the three authors, and concludes with an Afterword by Kaie Kellough. The release also coincides with a new music album by the three authors.
About the Authors
Lillian Allen is the City of Toronto's seventh poet Laureate and a creative writing professor at OCAD University. A pre-and post-language innovator, she works at the intersection of dub, sound and rebel poetics.
Lillian is the author of Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen, Women Do this Every Day, Psychic Unrest, plus books and recordings for children and young people.About the Authors
Gregory Betts is a poet, professor, scholar, and impish improviser. He curates the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive and is the Literary Arts Residency Lead for The SETI Institute.
About the Authors
Gary Barwin is a writer, composer and multimedia artist whose nationally bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize, and won the Leacock Medal. abcdefy