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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...

1 Whatever it is that the literature department of Arts Council England (ACE) is for, it can’t be for this: pulling the rug from under two organisations (the Poetry Book Society (PBS), the Poetry Trust) who for many years have helped make poetry books available to more readers than they’d otherwise get to, and from under the publishers Arc, Enitharmon and Flambard, whose work (translations, new writers and neglected older ones, local writing) is completely in accord with ACE stated priorities ‘Disgusting,’ was a word used by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, in regard to the PBS cut, which along with the others was announced in late March 2011, and she’s right   2 This is a mess come out of a mess, and the first mess is ACE itself Go to the ACE website and you’ll find not just the mission statement stuff (‘Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people’s lives’) and the topical stuff (‘a transformational Olympics opportunity’) and some literature priorities (‘We will prioritise those seeking to implement more sustainable business models’) and a press release on the recent funding decisions (‘The Arts Council has endeavoured to support and protect poetry, new writers and literature in translation’), but enough downloadable material to seriously slow your laptop, including a 47-page ‘Review of research and literature to inform the Arts Council’s ten-year strategic framework’ whose five pages of references include a report on ‘UK Music Industry Greenhouse Gas Emissions for 2007’   3 You could get lost in there Once upon a time the Arts Council literature department was widely viewed as an exclusive gentlemen’s club; now everyone can get in but the extreme bureaucracy is baffling Take the lift to the second floor, the doorman will say, go through the double doors on your left, take the second right, the first left and knock on the door marked ‘Excellence’   4 Part of the fog is business-speak, which so horribly determines the ways in which all facets of public life are debated (the

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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poetry

Issue No. 3

Camera & Even After He is Gone, the Cat is Here and I Cast My Suspicions on Him

Toshiko Hirata

TR. Jeffrey Angles

poetry

Issue No. 3

Camera You take my sweet sleeping face You take my innocent smile You take my large breasts Even though...

feature

Issue No. 5

The White Review No. 5 Editorial

The Editors

feature

Issue No. 5

One of the two editors of The White Review recently committed a faux pas by reacting with undisguised and indeed...

Art

Issue No. 1

The Idea Machine: Brion Gysin

Marina Cashdan

Art

Issue No. 1

Painter, performer, poet, writer and mystic Brion Gysin (1916-86) was an early prophet of our age. He was a...

 

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