POETRY
A true romantic-comedic poet, Sylvie Hill wrote about sexual frustration, drunks and rock n’ roll. Her satiric sketches of obsession and infatuation strongly recall our most embarrassing tendencies. By reducing humans’ grandiose attempts at love, fame and happiness, as a poet and former spoken-word artist, she detonated preconceptions of what one expects to hear emanate from the mouth of a respectable female on stage.
WRITING
Active in the mid-90s during my university years, I was published in many print magazines, such as Toronto’s INK! and Blood & Aphorisms’ Literary Babes Issue 2002, The Algonquin Roundtable Review, Bywords, and Pervert COMIX (early days’ zine of Gavin McInnes of VICE).
PERFORMING
I started performing poetry at coffee houses, and grew my talent as part of Ottawa’s Step UP Slam! spoken-word poetry collective through to soirées, festivals, and for the CBC’s Poetry Face-Off competition.
BOOK PUBLISHING
Beyond my two spoken-word poetry books, Hoxton Square Circles; starfucking tales of sexless one-night stands (2001) and Russell Square Station: mine the trash (2015), find here random poems, some which will be compiled into a new book called Kings Cross Plot: sweet dreams of the riser’s crux and fiction (2028). ♥