Mailing List


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.  

Articles Available Online


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...

I think the Opera Village will lead to a new idea of art, and what will emerge will at some point also raise interest in tourism in Burkina Faso The school will be our centre, educating children from Burkina Faso for whom it will open up wholly new possibilities And who will let us share in their works! It will be a festival for everyone all over this world when we see how children from Burkina Faso develop their own images, learn the music of their country, build musical instruments, start bands, record music, shoot films (Christoph Schlingensief, 8 February 2010)   Christoph Schlingensief was a celebrity in Germany, as famous as a pop star before his premature death in 2010 at the age of 49 During his short life he shot films, directed theatre, staged operas, created installations, invented performances and initiated political actions His final and as-yet unfinished project, the Opera Village Africa, has been described as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art, and the climax of his career The project seeks to create an artistic centre in one of the poorest countries in the world, an institution that will include a school, an opera house and a clinic The village, which includes in its mission statement the aim to ‘overcome the division between art and life’, elicits questions about the status of the artwork and the role of the artist in the twenty-first century Despite his domestic notoriety, Schlingensief’s international reputation was slow to develop before he was posthumously awarded the Golden Lion for work exhibited in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011 Born in 1960 in Oberhausen, a small town in the Ruhr Area, Schlingensief started making films at the age of 8 He released his first long film TUNGUSKA—The Crates are Here! in 1986 The plot of TUNGUSKA, which combines the aesthetics of a Czech folk tale with eerie surrealism, is described as follows by Australian Cinematheque: ‘Three researchers travel to the North Pole to torture Eskimos with their avant-garde films’ The summary gives some idea of Schlingensief’s perpetual opposition to 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...

READ NEXT

poetry

March 2015

Coup & Bell Curve

Elizabeth Willis

poetry

March 2015

COUP   Mallarmé’s gambling astonished everyone even the poets   An acre of paper sold down a river whose...

Interview

March 2014

Interview with John Smith

Tom Harrad

Interview

March 2014

In 1976, whilst still a student at the Royal College of Art in London, John Smith made a short...

fiction

January 2014

The Dispossessed

Szilárd Borbély

TR. Ottilie Mulzet

fiction

January 2014

The Dispossessed is Szilárd Borbély’s first novel, although he has been active – and widely acclaimed – as a poet,...

 

Get our newsletter

 

* indicates required