Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky Technology Stridentism

Stridentism

William Sieghart is back

com and has written two other books for this series

alongside complementary texts from artists

These ten much-loved poems are gathered together for the first time in this compendium to make a perfect gift for old friends celebrating a decade’s tradition or those experiencing the magic of Duffy’s festive verse for the first time

Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky Technology StridentismDeaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now. This astonishing parable in poems unfolds episodically like a play, its powerful narrative provoked by a tragic opening scene: when soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, the gunshot becomes the last thing the