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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...

It’s Sunday, after lunch The sun hovers, full up The houses – the tarmac, the lampposts, the cars in the driveways – glitter in the heat Everyone is inside, or at the back, in pools of velveteen shade The sun pervades, making everyone sleepy Cold, numbing drinks A little snooze later Prepare for Monday Recharge The wood cladding on these houses absorbs the heat, keeps the houses cool It’s Nordic, the developers had said, cool in summer warm in winter It was ingenious to build on this land, which had been previously impossible to develop Low ground, near to the ancient waterways, prone to flooding Amazing technology The houses sit like rows of teeth in the landscape, a yawning, half-smile that trails off, giving way to pasture and, beyond that, the marshes The fields roll out for miles, sinking lower towards the horizon Beyond, barely visible through the haze that rises from the marshland, the shape of an island     A woman stands at the sink, rinsing plates, putting them into the dishwasher Crumbs on the table, half-empty glasses with fingerprints, smears of gravy The woman’s eyes itch with tears The family have gone to their rooms When the dishes are all rinsed and stacked and the table wiped, the woman goes out to the garage There’s a naked man in there, wrapped in plastic He’s not dead He’s not alive either    *   I mean you no harm I promise You know that, don’t you? I wouldn’t hurt you I couldn’t, even if I wanted to Which I don’t I am here to help you I am here to make your life easier I want your life to be easier I want you to be happy I want you to relax and be happy If you like, we can get in the car and take a drive We’ve got the whole day and I’m here for you I’m here to do whatever it is that you want to do I know, I know, it’s strange, isn’t it? It’s probably going to take some getting used to But I’m

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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feature

January 2011

Futures Past: Monumental Memorials of Modern Berlin

Leila Peacock

feature

January 2011

Cities display a worship of history in the monuments and memorials that they choose to erect, through which the...

fiction

September 2012

Sarah Palin Night

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September 2012

It was a Sunday afternoon, siesta time: my phone buzzed in my pocket. ‘Is this Agustín Fernández Mallo?’ ‘Yes,...

Art

July 2011

Interview with Steven Shearer

Vanessa Nicholas

Art

July 2011

Canada’s representative at the 54th Venice Beinnale is Steven Shearer, a soft-spoken and mild-mannered Vancouver-based artist whose work delves...

 

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