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KAY SYRAD - Novelist, poet, freelance writer and educator
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Infancy (from the Latin infantia, meaning 'the inability to speak') can be seen as a time between pure language. And human language and as such is unknowable to us. Cover design from a painting ('Dwelling') by Andrzej Jackowski). Investigates pre-verbal experience. During her research for this novel, Kay worked with the dance artist, Miranda Tufnell. And also Jayne Lloyd. With its daring combination of narrative, analysis, notes and poetry, this textured and moving novella draws us towards ideas about th...
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KAY SYRAD - Novelist, poet, freelance writer and educator
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Kay Syrad often collaborates with visual artists, dancers and musicians, experimenting with different ways to explore and present language-based works. During 2013-2015 she worked with the artist Chris Drury on a limited edition artist's book based on a rural residency with CAPE FAREWELL. The international cultural organisation that draws attention to the challenges of global climate change) at two organic dairy farms and a sheep farm in Dorset. 1000 tasks: work of the lightshipmen. The choral work was p...
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KAY SYRAD - Novelist, poet, freelance writer and educator
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Tracks' is available to buy here. Kay is co-author of two Thames and Hudson artists' monographs, the first on the internationally renowned land artist Chris Drury ( Silent Spaces. 1998, 2004) and more recently, on the landscape artist Philip Hughes ( Tracks. 2012) Tracks was named as 'Picture Book of the Week' by both The Guardian. And the New Statesman. Rosewell Publishing. Some copies still available from Kay via the Contacts and Links.
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KAY SYRAD - Novelist, poet, freelance writer and educator
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Kay's poetry collection, Double Edge. Was published in 2012 by Pighog Press, which has since been taken over by Red Hen Press. Kay's poems have been widely anthologised and have appeared in many journals including Poetry Review, Long Poem Magazine. And she has received a number of prizes and commendations for her work. Kay regularly writes reviews and articles for the poetry journal Artemis. She has also written for The North. And The Frogmore Papers. Homage to Sylvia Plath. A sestina for the Douanier.
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