Photos by Luke Murphy. Portrait by Alexander Kell
Melodilaust tone fall (2019)
European Poetry Festival Series 4
Sampson Low, London
Published March 2019
ISBN 978-1-912960-09-5
A5 Size
Forty pages
Print run of 200
Melodilaust tone fall continues Silje Ree’s significant exploration of bi-lingual poetics, utilising the Norwegian and English languages and their connections and disconnections as a poetic tool. Exploiting what she terms “bilingual opportunities”, Ree’s poetry is accentuated, rather than interrupted, by the mistakes and confusion bilingualism creates. Her words take variant visual forms, often diagrammatic and even straying into the cartographic and illustrative, and evolve into new shapes that make a case for an alternative, and mindfully visual kind of poetry. One that is not only comfortable but entirely based upon, multi-linguality.
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The European Poetry Festival 2019:
Norwegian Poetry Focus
Images and video from the launch 4th April 2019 at The Rose Theater, Kingston Upon Thames.
Photos by Alexander Kell