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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...

Resistance needs to be recorded Resistance needs symbols: ideas that can travel faster than speech, last longer than memory Nowhere is this more understood, more fought over, than in Palestine   From the inception of the Zionist project, battle has raged over language, over landscape, over image The ‘land without a people’, the ‘merciless terrorist’, the ‘humane soldier’, the occupying army searching for a ‘partner in peace’  For over one hundred years Palestine and her neighbours suffered countless defeats, losing land and lives again and again, facing up to a vastly superior military power again and again – yet somehow remaining the aggressor in the mainstream Western media   And for Palestine, public opinion in the West is one of the keys to freedom   Times are changing The internet has widened the battlefield – citizen journalists, bloggers, photographers make up a limitless army of volunteers The Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement empowers everyone with effective moral choices   The Palestine Festival of Literature, PalFest, is an annual series of readings, talks and workshops featuring writers and artists from Palestine and around the world For the last four years it’s taken place in cities across the West Bank and historical Palestine This year will be our first in Gaza   PalFest is by its very nature transient – it moves every day, crossing borders and military checkpoints to get to the audiences that aren’t allowed to come to us But its aims are long term So we’ve always made sure everything is recorded, and that videos are cut and uploaded live throughout the festival To present to the world a vision of Palestinian life that is not directly related to the Israeli occupation To show how keen the audiences are, how good the art is, how smart and resilient the students are   We were lucky to have my good friend, the documentarian Murat Gökmen, with us last year Over the festival week he went through a nasty interrogation, a full body search and a healthy dose of tear gas but he’s produced a film that captures the feeling of being on the road with PalFest and puts forward useful observations about what we’re all

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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Art

February 2012

Awst & Walther: A Lexicon of Questions

Francesca Gavin

Art

February 2012

Awst & Walther are a husband and wife team who create multi-disciplinary art works which range from building a...

fiction

March 2015

House Proud

Amelia Gray

fiction

March 2015

It’s harder to leave your burning home after you’ve spent so much time cleaning its floors. Watching those baseboards...

fiction

March 2017

Slogans

Maria Sudayeva

TR. Antoine Volodine

TR. Jeffrey Zuckerman

fiction

March 2017

A Few Words on Maria Sudayeva   Slogans is a strange, extraordinary book: it describes a universe of total...

 

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