Inspiration to write poems
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Language: British Sign Language (BSL)
Bilingual Poet’s Dilemma - by
What’s beautiful in Sign,
Is boring in a line,
What’s pretty in a line,
Is confusing in Sign.
Long Lost Lover - by
A yellow dawn breaks on the airport of my childhood
Thick air of spices and warmth and tenderness
Enters my nose and brings out a wave of nostalgia
And here I am, the home of my soul
Don Meuang embraced me like a long lost lover
Bea Webster
Bea Webster trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (BA performance in British Sign Language and English). Her writing credits include: Staging Our Futures Project (Little Cog Theatre) and, Squeezy Yoghurt (National Theatre of Scotland’s Scenes for Survival) Bea’s poem, Long Lost Lover, about Thailand-her birthplace-was published in both BSL and English. She also wrote […]
Donna Williams
Donna Williams is an English poet, writer, and consultant based in Bristol. She is Deaf and a British Sign Language (BSL) user, and considers herself bicultural — having grown up in the hearing world attending mainstream schools before discovering the Deaf community later in life. She studied at the University of Central Lancashire, where she […]
The stars are the map I unfurl - by
Da starns are da map I unrowl
Gary Quinn
Gary Quinn is a Deaf poet who composes and performs his work in British Sign Language (BSL). He is also an academic linguist, working as Assistant Professor in British Sign Language at Heriot-Watt University, where he has been based since 2006, researching sign language variation and the structure of BSL. Quinn’s poem The stars are […]