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Author: Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Barnes' fiction appears regularly in online and print journals. She has been featured in the Best Small Fictions 2022 anthology published by Sonder Press, the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist 2022, and is one winner of the Sundog Lit Collaboration Prize 2020. Elodie is also a Books and Creative Writing editor at Lucy Writers Platform, and was guest editor of their 2020 'Life in Languages' series exploring literature in translation and the role of language in our lives. During 2022 she will be co-facilitating 'What the Water Gave Us', an Arts Council England funded project for emerging women writers from migrant backgrounds, in collaboration with Lucy Writers, Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge, The Ruppin Agency, and Takeaway Press. She has also served as a volunteer reader for Reflex Press Flash Fiction Competition (Spring 2022). She splits her time between the north of England and North Wales, and is currently working on a collection of short stories. Find her online at elodierosebarnes.weebly.com

Wolfskin by Lara Moreno, translated by Katie Whittemore: a review and extract

6th March 20226th March 2022  Elodie Rose Barnes

Close but uneasy family ties form the backbone of this extraordinary, poetic, and refreshingly honest novel by Lara Moreno.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Katie Whittemore, Lara Moreno, novel extract, Structo Press, translated fiction, Wolfskin

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

21st October 202121st October 2021  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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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Bengali literature, devotion, Gitanjali (Song Offerings), mystical poetry, Poetry, poetry collection, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Rabindranath Tagore, Sing of Life, Translation, Westland Books

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

14th September 202117th September 2021  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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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Book Review, Emily Cooper, Glass, Interview, Makina Books, Poetry, poetry collection

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

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

9th June 20219th June 2021  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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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Book Review, Consent, female desire, Katherine Angel, sexual assault, sexual politics, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, Verso Books

The Dragons, The Giant, The Women: a powerful portrait of love and hope

21st May 202131st May 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

Wayétu Moore’s vivid memoir of her family’s escape from civil war is a story of violence, but also one of strength and faith.

Read More “The Dragons, The Giant, The Women: a powerful portrait of love and hope”
Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: civil war, Liberia, memoir, Migration, Pushkin Press, Refugees, Wayétu Moore

Taking A Long Look: an exhilarating journey through Vivian Gornick’s criticism

7th March 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

Vivian Gornick’s latest collection of essays on literature, culture and feminism demonstrates the power of the voice in personal journalism.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: criticism, Culture, essays, Feminism, Literature, New York, Verso Books, Vivian Gornick

Languages Are Good For Us: exploring the restless soul of language

16th February 202117th February 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

In her new book Languages Are Good For Us, Sophie Hardach traces the rich, creative threads of language history, from the earliest clay records to today.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: cuneiform, Head of Zeus, language learning, Languages, linguistics, prosody, Sophie Hardach, Translation

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.

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

‘Insomnia’ and other poems by Elodie Rose Barnes

19th January 202120th January 2021  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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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: dreams, H. D., Images, Imagism, Imagist poetry, Insomnia, Leonora Carrington, Lullaby, Poetry, Sleep, surreal, Surrealism, unconscious, Women surrealists

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

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