WiresthatSputterby Britta Badour

With propulsive, intimate stylings and an eye toward Black liberations, pop culture, sports, and familial fractures,Wires that Sputtermeets the world with the posture of a portraitist and the deftness of a poet-as-acrobat, as seeker. Here in these wondrous poems is an attentiveness toward that which harrows as well as that which heals, toward the power of space-giving and fragmentation. Rupture and recovery, tribute and tribulation, a revivifying musicality, and room to breathe all dapple these pages, where electricity manifests in every line. (From Penguin Random House Canada)

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Britta Badour, better known as Britta B., is an award-winning artist, public speakerand poet living in Toronto. She is the recipient of the 2021 Breakthrough Artist Award from the Toronto Arts Foundation. She teaches spoken word performance at Seneca College.

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Poetic License: Britta B - Dear Young Woman

6 years ago

Duration 2:49

Britta B performs Dear Young Woman and shines with a message all young women should hear.