signmetaphor | BSL poem "Two books" by Paul Scott @signmetaphor | Uploaded May 2015 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Deaf poet Paul Scott's signed poem (in British Sign Language) "Two Books" tells of a woman who buys two signing books at the airport bookstall, showing a world where books in sign language are freely available. It was performed in February 2010 at the Bristol Sign Poetry Festival 2010, at the Bristol Centre for Deaf People.
The poems in this channel are part of the collection made as the University of Bristol Sign Language Poetry Anthology with the aim to study metaphor in sign language poetry. The poem is discussed in the book Introducing sign language literature folklore and creativity, by Rachel Sutton-Spence and Michiko Kaneko, published by Palgrave press. A full translation and commentary on the poem and its features is available at: signinghandsacrossthewater.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/paulscotttwobooks.pdf
Deaf poet Paul Scott's signed poem (in British Sign Language) "Two Books" tells of a woman who buys two signing books at the airport bookstall, showing a world where books in sign language are freely available. It was performed in February 2010 at the Bristol Sign Poetry Festival 2010, at the Bristol Centre for Deaf People.
The poems in this channel are part of the collection made as the University of Bristol Sign Language Poetry Anthology with the aim to study metaphor in sign language poetry. The poem is discussed in the book Introducing sign language literature folklore and creativity, by Rachel Sutton-Spence and Michiko Kaneko, published by Palgrave press. A full translation and commentary on the poem and its features is available at: signinghandsacrossthewater.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/paulscotttwobooks.pdf
