Author: Elodie Rose Barnes

​Elodie Barnes is a writer of short things. She isn't a fan of labels, and her writing hovers in the spaces between fiction, poem, prose poem, and creative nonfiction. Despite this, her work appears regularly in online and print journals, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She is Books Editor and Creative Writing Editor for Lucy Writers Platform, and was guest editor of their 2020 Life in Languages series exploring languages and translation. She has a somewhat obsessive interest in women writers of the early twentieth century modernist and surrealist periods, and is currently working on two creative nonfiction projects: a series of fragmentary 'essayettes' on the modernist writer Djuna Barnes, and a series of hybrid pieces on grief, nature and place. Find her online at elodierosebarnes.weebly.com.

In conversation with Priya Sarukkai Chabria: “It’s only through stutters that we can approach the sacred”

  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Barnes talks to poet, translator, and writer, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, about her revisioning of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali, mystical poetry, transformation and translation, and writing as an act of devotion.

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Interview with poet Emily Cooper: ‘I’m obsessed with recording memories and stories’

  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Barnes talks to Emily Cooper about her debut collection Glass: poems which shift and reflect on the ideas of home as architectural space, home as memory space, permanence, impermanence, and the ‘ownership’ of stories.

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Fantasies and Erotics: Discovering Studio Manassé by Elodie Rose Barnes

  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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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: an interview with Katherine Angel

  Elodie Rose Barnes

In her new book, Katherine Angel explores the nuances and complexities of consent, female desire, and vulnerability in a post #MeToo world, and asks whether explicit consent really does make sex good again.

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

  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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‘Insomnia’ and other poems by Elodie Rose Barnes

  Elodie Rose Barnes

Sleeplessness gives way to the dreamy promise of luscious fruits, beautiful bodies and fantastical lands in Elodie Rose Barnes’ poetry, inspired, in part, by Leonora Carrington and H. D.

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

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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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