BSL poem "Owl" by Richard Carter

Deaf poet Richard Carter's signed poem (in British Sign Language) "Owl" tells a story of a young deaf boy who struggles with an oral education and learns to study with an owl who provides sign lanugage interpretation. It includes good examples of anthropomorphisation and deaf culture. It was performed at the Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol in January 2009.
For more of Richard Carter’s BSL poetry, go to www.bslpoetry.co.uk and   / bslpoetry  
The poems in this channel are part of the collection made as the University of Bristol Sign Language Poetry Anthology with the aim to study metaphor in sign language poetry. The poem is discussed in the book Introducing sign language literature folklore and creativity, by Rachel Sutton-Spence and Michiko Kaneko, published by Palgrave press. A full translation and commentary on the poem and its features is available at: https://signinghandsacrossthewater.fi...