In Public/In Private

Leyla Josephine dances between her private and public lives, her inner thoughts and outer performance, dipping into each side of herself with humour and reverence. In Public/In Private ends up in a stranger's flat on a one night stand, an awkward lunch with a politician, raves in dark sweaty clubs and midnight mass in Ireland. Some poems read like public proclamations but in others we are invited to listen through the crack of a bedroom door. There is a sense that everything firmly belongs here, the opposing sides of herself do not discount each other.

Leyla Josephine's first collection of poetry unmasks secrets, faith, shame, lust, and death unapologetically. She fearlessly reaches through every page and asks 'Have you felt this too?'.

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In Public/In Private

Leyla Josephine dances between her private and public lives, her inner thoughts and outer performance, dipping into each side of herself with humour and reverence. In Public/In Private ends up in a stranger's flat on a one night stand, an awkward lunch with a politician, raves in dark sweaty clubs and midnight mass in Ireland. Some poems read like public proclamations but in others we are invited to listen through the crack of a bedroom door. There is a sense that everything firmly belongs here, the opposing sides of herself do not discount each other.

Leyla Josephine's first collection of poetry unmasks secrets, faith, shame, lust, and death unapologetically. She fearlessly reaches through every page and asks 'Have you felt this too?'.

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In Public/In Private

In Public/In Private

by Leyla Josephine
In Public/In Private

In Public/In Private

by Leyla Josephine

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Overview

Leyla Josephine dances between her private and public lives, her inner thoughts and outer performance, dipping into each side of herself with humour and reverence. In Public/In Private ends up in a stranger's flat on a one night stand, an awkward lunch with a politician, raves in dark sweaty clubs and midnight mass in Ireland. Some poems read like public proclamations but in others we are invited to listen through the crack of a bedroom door. There is a sense that everything firmly belongs here, the opposing sides of herself do not discount each other.

Leyla Josephine's first collection of poetry unmasks secrets, faith, shame, lust, and death unapologetically. She fearlessly reaches through every page and asks 'Have you felt this too?'.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781913958350
Publisher: Burning Eye Books
Publication date: 11/16/2022
Pages: 106
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Leyla Josephine is a poet, film and theatre maker originally from Glasgow, now based in Prestwick. In 2014, Leyla won Hammer and Tongue's UK National Spoken Word Slam Championship at Royal Albert Hall. Her solo theatre shows have taken the UK by storm. Hopeless was runner up for Saboteur's Best Spoken Word Show 2018, and documentation of the show was published by Speculative Books by the same title. Daddy Drag won the Autopsy Award 2019 which celebrates artists making groundbreaking work in Scotland. Leyla's short film Groom was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA 2022. Leyla's poem 'Good with our hands' was included in Scottish Poetry Library's Best Scottish Poems of 2020. She has been included in anthologies such as The Edwin Morgan Centenary Collection, Neu! Reekie! #UntitledThree and Choice Words: Writers on Abortion alongside the likes Margaret Atwood, Audre Lorde and Gloria Steinem. She loves ABBA, dogs, talking to her houseplants and being in the sea.
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