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Tag: Circe

To Avantisundari & other poems by Sanjukta Dasgupta

16th May 202216th May 2022  Sanjukta Dasgupta

In this selection of poetry from across poet and scholar Sanjukta Dasgupta’s published collections, the unheard, undesired and misunderstood voices of women, real and mythical, rise up with wit, verve and vengeance.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Avantisundari, Circe, Cleopatra, Draupadi, Durga, Feminism, Gender, Greek Mythology, Helen, In the Kitchen, Indian literature, Indian mythology, Kali, Lakshmi, Medea, Medusa, Menaka, Mythology, Ophelia, poems, Poetry, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Sita

The Pisces by Melissa Broder – a beautiful, effervescent novel rooted in Greek myth

28th July 201930th July 2019  Victoria Smith

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2019, Melissa Broder’s The Pisces is a modern day fable about a woman who falls in love with a merman. Victoria Smith reviews Broder’s debut novel alongside her earlier poetry and essays, Last Sext and So Sad Today.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Anne Carson, Bloomsbury Fiction, Circe, Daisy Johnson, Everything Under, James Joyce, Last Sext, Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, Melissa Broder, Mythos, Pat Barker, So Sad Today, Stephen Fry, T. S. Eliot, The Pisces, the Pre-Raphaelites, The Silence of the Girls

Edward Burne-Jones at Tate Britain

24th January 201924th January 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

Greek myths and Arthurian legends are colourfully brought to life in Tate Britain’s latest exhibition, Edward Burne-Jones.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Brothers Grimm, Circe, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Legend, Mantegna and Bellini, Medieval Revival, Myth, Pre-Raphaelites, Romances, Sleeping beauty, Tate, Tate Britain, The Briar Rose, The National Gallery, The Wine of Circe, Victorian Art, William Morris

Circe by Madeline Miller Review

10th December 201811th December 2018  Miriam Al Jamil

Arts contributor, Miriam al Jamil, considers the woman behind the femme fatale myth, when reviewing Madeline Miller’s second novel, Circe.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Bloomsbury Fiction, Circe, Femme Fatale, Fiction, Goddess, Homer, Madeline Miller, Myth, Odyssey, Ovid, Review
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