“Sylvie Hill successfully straddles the zone between the colloquial and the quixotic with her sassy, tell-it-like-it-is spoken word. This is a performer to watch out for.”
~Alexis O’Hara, Performance Artist
“Sylvie Hill is a troubadour with a voracious appetite. Think the sentiments of Rufus Wainwright punctuated in urban rap that is naked both in its power and […]
Sylvie Hill has performed and been involved in the following shows:
Talented Tongues @ Venus Envy
CBC Poetry Face-Off 2005
Toronto’s Ear to the Ground
Durtygurls Reading Series (Check out a Durtygurls promo poster)
The Agora
WESTFEST
Midnight Madness: Desdechado at The Ottawa Fringe Festival
Punk Poets Night
Step UP! Slam
She’ll Never Know is Sylvie Hill’s UPCOMING short-story collection featuring heart- and nose-breaking tales of sex-filled one-night stands. But not her own entirely…
A total 180° from the autobiographical Hoxton Square Circles: Starfucking Tales of Sexless One-night Stands, the new book spills other people’s sad-sack sonofabitch stories of suffering and redemption from adultery, infedility and obsessive […]
Hoxton Square Circles: Starfucking Tales of Sexless One-night Stands is a collection of spoken word poetry documenting one woman’s journey through the sexual landscape of Ottawa. So it’s a short book. And who are we kidding — the author is a tattle-tale. Hoxton spills all the nitty gritty of Hill’s one-night exchanges with folks, exploring […]
Read more »The Ottawa XPress │ March 4, 2004
By: Matthew Firth
Poet Faces Off for Victory
Ottawa’s Sylvie Hill will be one of 70 Canadian poets vying for victory when CBC Radio’s Poetry Face-Off starts next week. The competition for a national champion kicks off in 14 Canadian cities with five poets in each making words work before […]
Writer’s Block Magazine │ Winter 2002
By: Lorie Boucher
erotica: n. intentionally erotic literature or art
erotic: adj. 1. of or pertaining to sexual love
2. tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement
~Canadian Oxford Dictionary
The reader’s noble quest for dirty knowledge ends thusly in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary; searching for sexual desire is fruitless. It’s not as though valuable […]
Get Guerilla Magazine│ Issue #1
By: Tony Martins
A dialogue about a film > about spoken word poetry > about sex or lack thereof
In the summer of 2001, riding an unprecedented surge in our spoken word poetry scene, Sylvie Hill reigned as Ottawa’s leading indie sex goddess, talking dirty and funny and scary into a […]