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Tag: Elodie Rose Barnes

From Bed to Shed: Writing Through the Pandemic

31st March 2022  Lucy Writers

Two years after the first UK lockdown, writers Shamini Sriskandarajah and Elodie Barnes reflect on how the restrictions (and opportunities) of Covid-19 have altered and shaped their creative practices.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, InterviewsTagged: Covid-19, Elodie Rose Barnes, Lockdown Living, lockdown writing, Pandemic, recovery, Shamini Sriskandarajah, writing

Lucy Writers Announces Our New Arts Council England Funded Project, What the Water Gave Us

24th February 202224th February 2022  Lucy Writers

Lucy Writers is proud to announce its new Arts Council England funded mentoring project, What the Water Gave Us, for emerging women writers.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Lucy Features, My Cambridge, Non-FictionTagged: Arts Council England, Arts Council England National Lottery Grant, Brexit Britain, Burley Fisher, Claire Hynes, Elodie Rose Barnes, Emma Claire Sweeney, Emma Hanson, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Immigration, Irenosen Okojie, Jenny Chamarette, Lucy Cavendish College, migrant writers, Migration, Pandemic, Rojbîn Arjen Yigit, Selin Genc, Shamini Sriskandarajah, Shirley Ahura, So Mayer, Susan Barker, Takeaway Press, The Ruppin Agency, water, What the Water Gave Us, Yen Ooi, Yvonne Battle-Felton

Fantasies and Erotics: Discovering Studio Manassé by Elodie Rose Barnes

13th July 202115th July 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

A secondhand book found in Paris takes Elodie Rose Barnes on a curious foray into the fantastical Studio Manassé, a portraiture business that specialised in glamorously surreal and, at times, problematic photographs of women.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, BooksTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Berlin, Budapest, burlesque, Elodie Rose Barnes, erotic images, Monika Faber, Olga Wlassics, Paris, Studio Manassé, Wlassics

Two Poems by Elodie Rose Barnes

29th June 202129th June 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

In these two vertiginous poems by Elodie Rose Barnes, language and bodies fizz with expectation, beautifully dissolving with reckless abandon.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Brassaï, Elodie Rose Barnes, Matthew Bourne, poems, Poetry, The Red Shoes

The Dinner Party Reloaded 4: The Poets

9th May 202124th November 2022  Susanna Crossman

In her fourth virtual dinner party of the series, Susanna Crossman talks to poets Elodie Rose Barnes, Nancy Campbell, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Alina Stefanescu about poets as ‘wonder-workers’, poems as rafts and echoes, writing the life of Djuna Barnes, revisiting Tagore’s Gitanjali and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Alina Stefanescu, Bachelard, Disko Bay, Djuna Barnes, Dor, Elodie Rose Barnes, Interview, Nancy Campbell, Navigations, Poetry, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Ribald, Susanna Crossman, Tagore, The Dinner Party, The Dinner Party Reloaded, writers

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.

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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

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

20th December 202010th March 2021  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

Sissal Kampmann’s Darkening / Myrking: Poems in Faroese & interview with translator Marita Thomsen

17th November 202018th November 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes reviews Sissal Kampmann’s Faroese poetry collection, Darkening/Myrking, and speaks to translator Marita Thomsen about translating Kampmann’s work, Faroese weather, gender in language, and reading translated texts.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Darkening/Myrking, Elodie Rose Barnes, Faroe Islands, Faroese, Languages, Life in Languages, Marita Thomsen, Sissal Kampmann, Translation

Chapter 3: The Art of Translating a Life

5th October 202013th October 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

In her third chapter of the series, Elodie Rose Barnes walks the streets of Paris trying to uncover fragments of Djuna Barnes’ relationship with Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and her attempt to write a biography of the Dada artist’s life.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Berlin, Decorating Dissidence, Djuna Barnes, Elodie Rose Barnes, Francis Picabia, Life in Languages, Marcel Duchamp, Modernism, modernist avant garde, New York, Paris, Queer Relationships, Queer Studies, The Baroness, Translation

Dead Girls by Selva Almada translated by Annie McDermott

29th August 202029th August 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

In Annie McDermott’s superb translation of Selva Almada’s journalistic novel, Dead Girls, the story of three young women murdered in 1980s Argentina asks how long will the world stand by and remain silent about violence to women?

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Charco Press, Chicas Muertas, Dead Girls, Elodie Rose Barnes, Feminism, gender violence, Life in Languages, misogyny, Selva Almada, Translation, Women in Translation, Women in Translation Month 2020

The Language of Reminiscence by Ludovica Credendino

25th August 202025th August 2020  Ludovica Credendino

Ludovica Credendino remembers the difficulties of switching from Italian to English when writing creatively, and how she learned to fuse the two into her own unique language.

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Posted in Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Creative Writing, Elodie Rose Barnes, Italian, Languages, Life in Languages, Ludovica Credendino, Translation

Letter to Parajanov by Nora Nadjarian

18th August 202018th August 2020  Nora Nadjarian

In Nora Nadjarian’s beautiful poem, ‘Letters to Parajanov’, a speaker awaits a bird’s return with news from her homeland and recalls words lost and gained in this new ‘country’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Armenia, Crane, Cyprus, Elodie Rose Barnes, Europa 28, Letters to Parajanov, Life in Languages, Nora Nadjarian, Poet, Poetry

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