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Category: Creative Writing

‘Missing the Train’ & other poems by Susan Wilson

13th January 202115th January 2021  Susan Wilson

Susan Wilson’s poems quietly and sensitively explore the range of feelings – numbness, pain and longing – experienced after losing a loved one, enacting within their poetic structures the motions and process of grief.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Burley Fisher, grief, Mental Health, Poetry, Snakeskin, Spineless Authors, Susan Wilson

‘The Composition of Us’ by Johanna Robinson

11th January 202111th January 2021  Johanna Robinson

Johanna Robinson’s flash fiction, ‘The Composition of Us’, celebrates friendship between women – the joy, tears, late night talks and parties experienced before the pandemic and now in lockdown, online.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Corona Pandemic, Creative Writing, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Fiction, Flash Fiction, friendship, girlfriends, Johanna Robinson, Lockdown Living, Pandemic

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

Community is Kindness: Our Summer of Mutual Aid

17th December 20207th January 2021  Tomilyn Hannah

As someone who was already fighting a life-threatening illness, Tomilyn Hannah was familiar with difficulties of social distancing and self-isolation. But lockdown gave her an opportunity to encounter the kindness of strangers, make new friends and be part of a new community.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: community, Community is Kindness, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Friendship During the Pandemic, Health, Health & Wellbeing, kindness, Lockdown Living, Mutual Aid, Pandemic, Tomilyn Hannah, WhatsApp

Translation is a place of resting, of being in common

15th December 202015th December 2020  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

After an Erasmus exchange in Paris, artist and art historian Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie discovered that translation is about the space between languages and voices; a space that affords us new connections, ideas and friendships.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Erasmus, France, French, friendship, Ground Provisions, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Language, Languages, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Life in Languages, Paris, Photography, Sealy Thompson, Stefano Harney, Translation

Translation as Homecoming

13th December 202013th December 2020  Naima Rashid

Learning both English and Urdu at school, and teaching French after university, Naima Rashid initially felt dislocated from her “mother tongue” and land. But, on reading Urdu again, she’s discovered it’s ‘the space between languages’ that feels like home.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: bi-lingual, Defiance of the Rose, French, French Language, Languages, learning languages, Life in Languages, Multi-lingual, Naima Rashid, Pakistan, Poetry, Shadow Heroes, Translation, Urdu

Adopting an Additional Identity

10th December 202011th December 2020  Toni Roberts

Little did Toni Roberts know that her decision to study Spanish at school would turn into a life-long love for a language that has since given her confidence, creativity and, above all, joy.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Christine and the Queens, Federico Garcia Lorca, Flamenco, French, Frida Kahlo, GCSE, Languages, Life in Languages, Life writing, Rosalía, Spanish, Spanish songs, Toni Roberts, Translation

Languages around Lucy’s Kitchen Table

9th December 2020  Juliane Beck

Recalling several occasions where her native tongue has been criticised, Juliane Beck became conscious not only of the sound, but the cultural and socio-political history attached to the German language. Here, she writes about learning to accept and appreciate how language is embedded in life.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Conversation, German, German Language, German Literature, Languages, Life in Languages, Lucy Cavendish College, speech

Life in a Pile of Emojis and Broken English

1st December 20201st December 2020  Stephanie Mamonto

Following a family bereavement, Stephanie Mamonto started to consider how empathy is conveyed online and how different languages enable or limit our expression of emotion.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Catherine Caldwell-Harris, communication, emojis, English Language, identity, Indonesia, Languages, Life in Languages, Life writing, PJ Manney, Social media, Stephanie Mamonto

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.

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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

What my silence in the deaf community taught me about directness and honesty

16th November 202016th November 2020  Majella Mark

When Majella Mark was left unable to speak because of health problems, she felt alone and excluded. But on discovering New York’s hearing impaired community, she made new friends and learned to communicate in a way she never had before.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: American Sign Language, ASL, Black Lives Matter, BLM, communication, Deaf Community, friendship, hearing impairment, Languages, Life in Languages, Majella Mark, Sign Language, speech

‘My friend, there are no friends’: on mourning, abandonment and reckonings

12th November 20207th January 2021  Sumaya Kassim

In the first essay of her co-edited and co-conceived series, Disembodied Voices: Friendship during COVID-19, Sumaya Kassim reflects on the breakdown of a friendship, exploring feelings of abandonment, rejection and grief that led her to self-evaluate and cultivate new intimacy and care.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: abandonment, Aristotle, Aysha Abdulrazak, BLM, BLM 2020, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, I May Destroy You, Jacques Derrida, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic, Sumaya Kassim

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