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Interview with publisher and translator Denise Rose Hansen: ‘Reading parochially would be too much to bear’

3rd February 20213rd February 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes talks to Lolli Editions founder Denise Rose Hansen about work in translation, reading across borders, the novel as art, & publishing during lockdown.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Amalie Smith, Ann Quin, Books in translation, Denise Rose Hansen, Frank Bowling, Lolli Editions, New Passengers, Pauline Boty, Pop Art, Publishing, Thread Ripper, Tine Høeg, Tools for Extinction, Translation, Walter Benjamin

Strangers by Rebecca Tamás – a pertinent exploration of the eco-political landscape

27th January 2021  Shameera Nair Lin

Rebecca Tamás’ essay collection, Strangers, is an ambitious, moving exploration of the human place in the natural world.

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Posted in Arts, Books, EnvironmentTagged: Ana Mendieta, Black Nature, Camille Dungy, climate grief, Environment, Environmentalism, essay, Jahar Dasgupta, Makina Books, panpsychism, Rebecca Tamás

‘The Immortal Charlie Parker’ by Michèle Saint-Michel

25th January 202125th January 2021  Michèle Saint-Michel

Artist Michèle Saint-Michel fuses poetry and music with news reportage in her powerful audio piece, The Immortal Charlie Parker. In it, she recounts her experience of reconnecting with a childhood friend during the early stages of the pandemic.

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Posted in Arts, Creative Writing, Film and Media, Music, PoetryTagged: audio, audio poem, Charlie Parker, Consent, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Jazz, Lockdown, Michèle Saint Michel, Pandemic, Poetry, PTSD, Savoy Records, trauma

Writing with: Hélène, Julia, and Virginia

18th January 202120th January 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

In this creative, collagic essay, Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie writes with and through the words of Virginia Woolf, Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva to convey the freedom of writing and kinship felt when reading their works.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Feminism, Friends, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Orlando, Psycho-analysis, The Laugh of The Medusa, The Waves, Virginia Woolf, writing

Interview with acclaimed poet & novelist, Rosie Garland: ‘Rosie Lugosi, my alter-ego lesbian vampire queen, was all about disobedient queerness’

12th January 202112th January 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes talks to author, performer and singer, Rosie Garland, about discovering the magic of words as a child, being an outsider, the importance of reading poetry out loud and the feminist gothic found in her novels.

Read More “Interview with acclaimed poet & novelist, Rosie Garland: ‘Rosie Lugosi, my alter-ego lesbian vampire queen, was all about disobedient queerness’”
Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Elodie Rose Barnes, Feminism, Interview, Neo-Victorian, Nine Arches Press, Poetry, queer literature, Queerness, Rosie Garland, Rosie Lugosi, The Gothic, The Night Brother, The Palace of Curiosities, What Girls Do In The Dark

Drawn into Being: the drawings of Louise Bourgeois and Jean Frémon’s Nativity

22nd December 202023rd December 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In this creative ‘Christmas’ essay, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou reflects on the power and therapeutic potential of drawing in her own life, the artistic practise of Louise Bourgeois, and Jean Frémon’s new text Nativity (Les Fugitives).

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Ann Coxon, art, Art History, art therapy, Artist, Books in translation, Christmas, Cole Swensen, creativity, drawing, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Jean Frémon, John Berger, Languages, Les Fugitives, Louise Bourgeois, Lucy Lippard, Motherhood, Nativity, portraiture, pregnancy, Translation, unconscious

The Dinner Party Reloaded 3: The Translators

22nd December 202022nd December 2020  Susanna Crossman

In her third virtual dinner party of the year, Susanna Crossman invites translators and writers Saudamini Deo, Denise Rose Hansen, and Emma Rault to discuss different modes of translating, the fascistic notion of an “original” language, the work of Ann Quin and the ghosts behind translation.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Ann Quin, Covid-19, Denise Rose Hansen, Emma Rault, Hilde Domin, Hiromi Kawakami, Jen Calleja, Languages, Lolli Editions, Pandemic, Saudamini Deo, Sophie Collins, Steven Seymour, Susanna Crossman, TDPR, The Dinner Party Reloaded, Translation, Vera Pavlova

The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento: in conversation with translators Loretta Collins Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan

20th December 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes explores the epic English and Spanish poetry anthology, The Sea Needs No Ornament / El mar no necesita ornamento, and talks to its translators, Loretta Collins Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan, about the translation process, empowering women writers from the Caribbean and the literary history behind the poems.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: anthology, Bilingual, caribbean, Caribbean literature, Creole, El mar no necesita ornamento, Elodie Rose Barnes, English, Languages, Life in Languages, Loretta Collins Klobah, Maria Grau Perejoan, Peepal Tree Press, Spanish, The Sea Needs No Ornament, Translation, women poets

Steve McQueen’s Year 3 at Tate Britain

8th December 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen’s epic Year 3 project brings together more than 3000 class portraits from over 1500 primary schools to commemorate a most formative time in a child’s educational life. The result, says our writer Shamini Sriskandarajah, is at once illuminating and moving.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Childhood, children, Duveen Galleries, dyslexia, filmmaker, learning difficulties, London, Maria Balshaw, Photography, portraits, Primary schools, Small Axe, Steve McQueen, Tate, Tate Britain, Year 3

King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne – a pertinent and impassioned manifesto

6th December 20206th December 2020  Shameera Nair Lin

Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory is an angry and passionate manifesto against late capitalist patriarchy, a story about sexual assault and trauma that centres the survivor.

Read More “King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne – a pertinent and impassioned manifesto”
Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Camille Paglia, Fitzcarraldo, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Frank Wynne, King Kong Theory, Lauren Elkin, Life in Languages, patriarchy, sex work, sexual assault, Translation, Virginie Despentes

On First Looking into Wilson’s Homer: Womxn’s War for Words

27th November 202029th November 2020  Georgia Poplett

On reading Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, Georgia Poplett started to consider the misogynistic history behind language and the way translated words have been used to harm and heal womxn.

Read More “On First Looking into Wilson’s Homer: Womxn’s War for Words”
Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emily Wilson, George Bernard Shaw, Greta Gerwig, Homer, Keats, Languages, Life in Languages, Lilith, Little Women, Luce Irigaray, Odysseus, Penelope, the Pre-Raphaelites, The Yellow Wallpaper, Translation

Women of the Night, Chapter 3: Vrăjitoare, Romania’s Witch Business

25th November 202026th November 2020  Toni Roberts

In the third chapter of her mini-series, Toni Roberts discovers that witchcraft is alive and well in Romania. Looking at Lucia Sekerková Bláhová’s photography series, Vrăjitoare, the modern, technologically savvy face of magic and witchery is revealed.

Read More “Women of the Night, Chapter 3: Vrăjitoare, Romania’s Witch Business”
Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Lucia Sekerková Bláhová, Magic, Night / Shift, Romania, Toni Roberts, Vrăjitoare, witchcraft, witches, Women of the Night

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