Sylvie Hill

Window. One time I worried ‘cause there were no curtains on your window and although it was winter and we doubted if there were peepers I still wondered if anyone was hanging about the field watching me naked and taking it from behind. Hands clutching the bedbars pulling the feathers from the pillows with my [...]

II. Ports .& Gall I. Loser If there were times when I said goodbye and didn’t mean it then I apologize for the lack of interest in a sincerity so fine that could have otherwise calculated for the misconceptions about you and me and saved us a whole bunch of nights of fights and bickering [...]

Not A Very Light House So you’ll leave the light on for me? That’s nice, dear. But it’s a ….lighthouse. That’s what it does. It keeps the light on. I’m going to tell you now “there is no light without dark” so turn off the sky, now and disappear. You want to do something fine? [...]

Get Out of Jail Free Bard Escape a jail, sail: No-no marry Lest she be changing diapers instead of windshield wipers on long road trips to Californie. No-no babies Lest she be twenty years young for the uptake not when she’s forty! Escape a jail, sail: No-no family Lest she be tied down and can’t [...]

All These Nights All these nights they come in And the eyes are open wide And she sees the guys coming All night long And the signs, she sees them Hearts are open wild And he never calls it; He’s always Ho-Hum Yeah the times they rush in And the blood it flows in And [...]

Protection. The guy in the back says nothing Until it’s time to pour the whiskey The girl pipes up and she starts talking Asks about the band, where they’re from and he says something. Don’t make them speak Just pour the drinks. The only sign of friendship here is a “yes.” And she asks for [...]

She’ll Never Know is a short-story collection Sylvie’s working on, 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 [...]

This article titled “Local author says erotic literature is for ’good girls,’ too…” was featured in Carleton University’s Centretown News By Jessica Iaboni ——————————————————————————– An Ottawa writer will release her first fiction novel about the sexual escapades of a liberated woman and her hybrid vampire lover in early April [2006]. Patricia McCarthy, an office worker [...]

“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 [...]

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