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What the poets are sayin’ … about Sylvie

“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 […]

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Sounds like Sylvie hill

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 […]

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You Said “Beaver”: The Rise of Canadian Erotica

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 […]

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