Wires That Sputter: Poems

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A powerful debut collection from an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet. With propulsive, intimate stylings and an eye toward Black liberations, pop culture, sports, and familial fractures, Wires that Sputter meets 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.

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Praise for Britta Badour and Wires that Sputter

Wires that Sputter delivers on the promised electricity withsyntax that flashes like lightning and interrupts like good thunder. Through Britta Badours words runs a language as shocking and new as what Franklin found when he casted that key into the sky. An inventor in her own right, Badours debut buzzes with the freeness of jazz and the attitude of a boombox. Danez Smith, author of Homie

In Wires that Sputter Britta Badour proves herself to be a poet unafraid to risk, unafraid to push the english language to its buoyant, confounding and sonically pleasurable limits. These poems testify to Brittas faith in poetry as a mechanism for expansiveness, where the tensions between the spoken and unspoken, the revealed truth and the concealed (family) secret are exquisite, daring and capacious.Brandon Wint, author of Divine Animal

Britta Badour uses the page as a canvas, sheet music. Poems that feel like songs. The collection invites readers to dance, light fires, and unlock the homes we are made of. Ian Keteku, former World Poetry Slam champion and author of Black Abacus

[Britta Badour's] incisive look at the world invites us into her reality: on the court, the belligerent streets of Kingston, in the classrooms she grows up in, all the way through bedrooms and kitchens to the classrooms she teaches in, too. We gain a familiarity with the body as a vessel, canvas, and kingdom for discovery and safety of the self. Nisha Patel, Poet Laureate Emeritus of the City of Edmonton

Author Bio

Britta Badour, better known as Britta B., is an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet living in Toronto. She is the recipient of the Breakthrough Artist Award (Toronto Arts Foundation, 2021) and Lecturer of the Year (COCA, 2021). Britta holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph and teaches spoken word performance at Seneca College.