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.
Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Finalist
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Shortlist
Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Shortlist
Raymond Souster Award, Longlist
"The musicality in Britta Badour's Wires That Sputter is
immediately evident. Each poem is riveting, commanding an attention
as you hang on to every word. Badour's sense of voice and rhythm is
assured in poems on Blackness, place, famillial ties, and
more."
—Pat Lowther Memorial Award Jury
"As the title suggests, Wires That Sputter is a collection with a
voice that electrifies, a voice that breathes off the page.
Beautiful, spacious, and at times, delicate, these poems play into
space and sound. There is a precise yet free musicality and
movement in these pages that makes this book a true pleasure to
read. Family history, the minutiae of daily living, Black
liberation, love—these subjects and more join together in the
seamless synchronicity of an attentive gaze."
—Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Jury
“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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