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.
Praise for Britta Badour and Wires that Sputter
"Wires that Sputter delivers on the promised electricity
with syntax that flashes like lightning and interrupts like good
thunder. Through Britta Badour's 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, Badour's 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 Britta's 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
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