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Rebecca Tamás
REBECCA TAMÁS is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. Her pamphlet Savage was published by Clinic, and was a LRB Bookshop pamphlet of the year, and a Poetry School book of the year. Rebecca’s first full-length poetry collection, WITCH, was published by Penned in the Margins in March 2019. She is editor, together with Sarah Shin, of Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry, published by Ignota Books. Her collection Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman was published by Makina Books in October 2020.  

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Interview with Ariana Reines

Interview

July 2019

Rebecca Tamás

Interview

July 2019

I first became aware of Ariana Reines’s work through her early poetry collection The Cow (2006), which went on to win the prestigious Alberta Prize. I...

Essay

Issue No. 24

The Songs of Hecate: Poetry and the Language of the Occult

Rebecca Tamás

Essay

Issue No. 24

  I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have...

In August 2022, ABC announced that Ellen Pompeo, currently the highest-paid actress on American network television, was leaving Grey’s Anatomy, the show on which she has portrayed the eponymous general surgeon Meredith Grey since 2005; her final episode aired in the US on 23 February 2023 I’ll put my cards on the table right away: I was devastated It will be a long goodbye Pompeo is doing episodic voiceovers for the rest of the season, and will ‘come back to visit’ But can Grey’s exist without Meredith? It has been her show from the beginning The committed (me) have spent 19 seasons watching her progress from the first day of her surgical internship at Seattle Grace Hospital to becoming the Chief of General Surgery of the renamed Grey Sloan Memorial Her storylines haunt its corridors: Pompeo told Deadline that, like the ghost of a loved one, she will ‘never truly be gone as long as that show’s on the air’   Of course, many will say that say that the series should have ended a long time ago Opinions differ as to when exactly it jumped the shark Was it when Meredith lost her best friend, Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) to a Swiss hospital with 3D-printed hearts in season 10, or when she lost her husband, Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), to a semi-truck in season 11? Was it the switch from film to digital? Was it at the start of season 14, when Shonda Rhimes left for a lucrative Netflix deal and handed the reins over to Krista Vernoff? Or was it even earlier than that, with season 7’s – frankly abject – musical episode? It’s definitely a much worse show than it used to be, but that’s beside the point To fully understand Grey’s, you have to free yourself from the expectation of good dialogue, believable character development, well-plotted episodes, or inspired soundtrack choices Long gone are the days of Oh in leathers dismounting from a motorbike as Rilo Kiley’s ‘Portions for Foxes’ plays in the background What remains is something else: endurance   The politics

Contributor

July 2015

Rebecca Tamás

Contributor

July 2015

REBECCA TAMÁS is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. Her pamphlet Savage was published by Clinic, and...

Interrogations

poetry

Issue No. 14

Rebecca Tamás

poetry

Issue No. 14

INTERROGATION (1)     Are you a witch?   Are you   Have you had relations with the devil?   Have you   Have...

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October 2013

The Good Soldier

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October 2013

Two hundred names are inscribed in a totemic list that opens Alice Oswald’s Memorial. The deaths of the Greek heroes,...

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July 2015

Michaël Borremans

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July 2015

Michaël Borremans is among the most important painters at work in the world today. His practice combines a lifetime’s...

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Issue No. 9

The White Review No. 9 Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 9

This ninth print issue of The White Review is characterised by little more than the continuation of the principles...

 

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