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Category: Arts

Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London

15th December 202220th December 2022  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Kirsten Glass’ enchanting paintings conjure alternate realms, invoke esoteric energies and summon nocturnal beings. In this creative essay, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou meditates on the “obverse” side of her mesmerising work and its magical channeling of all things dark.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Hecate, Hekate, Karsten Schubert, Kirsten Glass, moon light, Mythology, Night-Scented Stock, sigils, surealism, the Occult, Water Offerman, witchcraft, women artists

Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum

14th December 202215th December 2022  Lisa Goodrum

Heavy with heartache and loss, Lisa Goodrum turned to the haunting photography of Francesca Woodman to make sense of the pain and the blurry, achromatic period that was the summer of 2019. Here, in hauntingly beautiful prose, she tells her story.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, arts criticism, creative non-fiction, Diane Arbus, Francesca Woodman, Lisa Goodrum, love, memoir, relationships, Robert Mapplethorpe

Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas

13th December 2022  Rachel Ashenden

Rachel Ashenden talks to artist Nell Brookfield about how her evocative paintings’ capture the strange in the quotidian and unleash the animalistic in the human.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Nell Brookfield, profile, Rachel Ashenden, subconscious, Surrealism

Your Retreating Shadow: poetry as a portal between conscious memory and subconscious dreaming

12th December 202213th December 2022  Jennifer Brough

Rochelle Roberts’ speaker moves back and forth through the porous gateway of memory in an uncanny debut. 

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Broken Sleep Books, poetry collection, Rochelle Roberts, Your Retreating Shadow

Peach Pig by Cecilia Knapp – a deep dive into the most vulnerable parts of ourselves

8th December 20228th December 2022  Seraphina Edelmann

Peaches and pigs, softness and hunger, all crop up and are used to explore women’s relationships to their bodies in Cecilia Knapp’s raw and remarkable collection, Peach Pig, writes our contributor Seraphina Edelmann.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Bodies, Cecilia Knapp, Little Brown, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Peach Pg, Poetry, Seraphina Edelmann, women poets

An interview with award-winning poet Polly Atkin in Grasmere: ‘When is a cloud lonely in the Lake District?’

7th December 20228th December 2022  Iona Glen

Iona Glen meets award-winning poet, Polly Atkin, to discuss her recent biography Recovering Dorothy, how Dorothy Wordsworth’s illness has been overlooked in academic scholarship, the marginalisation of those with chronic ill health, poems as time machines and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Biography, Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere, Interview, Iona Glen, Lake District, Poetry, Polly Atkin, Saraband Books, Seren Books, William Wordsworth

Becoming and Belonging in Claudia Durastanti’s Strangers I Know

29th November 202229th November 2022  Vartika Rastogi

Claudia Durastanti’s luminous novel, Strangers I Know, traverses multiple identities, migrations and languages, and considers how ‘art can free an individual from difference, and difference from solitude’, writes Vartika Rastogi.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: autofiction, Books in translation, Claudia Durastanti, Elizabeth Harris, Fitzcarraldo, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Novel, Strangers I Know, translated fiction, Women in Translation

The Dinner Party Reloaded 5: The Memoirists & Fiction Writers

24th November 202227th November 2022  Susanna Crossman

For her fifth dinner party, author and host Susanna Crossman talks to writers Elizabeth Chakrabarty, Lily Dunn and Shamini Sriskandarajah about eliding the barriers between fiction and non-fiction, the ethics of (memoir) writing, diverse ways of reading via Lydia Davis and whether to “glam up” or dress down when sitting down to write.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Alan Bennett, Bending genre, cartharsis, creative non-fiction, David Shields, Elizabeth Chakrabarty, Fiction, Lily Dunn, Lydia Davis, Margot Slinger, Nicole Walker, non-fiction, Polari First Book Prize, Reading, Shamini Sriskandarajah, Susanna Crossman, The Dinner Party, The Dinner Party Reloaded

‘You had to tell children the truth’: intergenerational bonds, backlashes, secrets and alliances in Veronique Olmi’s Daughters Beyond Command

14th November 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Family ties are challenged and remade during politically divisive and tumultuous times in Véronique Olmi’s intimate and brilliantly written novel, Daughters Beyond Command.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Alison Anderson, Books, daughters, Daughters Beyond Command, Europa Editions, Feminism, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Literature, literature in translation, mother-daughter relationships, Motherhood, Novel, Véronique Olmi

An Interview with acclaimed author Savala Nolan: ‘Liminality gives me a sense of having multiple passports. It renders me a kind of polyglot and translator’

9th November 202210th November 2022  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Acclaimed author Savala Nolan talks to Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou about her latest collection of essays, Don’t Let It Get You Down (The Indigo Press), navigating interstitial spaces and identities, the ubiquity of violence to women, imagination as a vital tool to access African American history and life writing as a form of cartography for readers.

Read More “An Interview with acclaimed author Savala Nolan: ‘Liminality gives me a sense of having multiple passports. It renders me a kind of polyglot and translator’”
Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: African American history, Black Women Creatives, Black Women Writers, Bodies, creative non-fiction, Don't Let It Get You Down, essays, Feminism, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Intersectional Feminism, interviews, My Body's Bodies Editorial, non-fiction, personal essay, Saidiya Hartman, Savala Nolan, The Indigo Press

Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth – a rich, compelling and unsettling read

7th November 20227th November 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Vigdis Hjorth’s novel, Is Mother Dead, translated by Charlotte Barslund, interrogates the cultural expectations placed on ‘woman’ and ‘mother’, and offers a stark and powerful addition to the growing body of ‘motherhood’ texts, writes Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books in translation, Charlotte Barslund, french feminism, Is Mother Dead, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Motherhood, translated fiction, Verso, Verso Books, Verso Fiction, Vigdis Hjorth, Women in Translation

Animals at Night by Naomi Booth – a cuttingly haunting short story collection

26th September 202226th September 2022  Suzannah Ball

Naomi Booth’s short story collection delves into the nocturnal happenings of both animals and humans, revealing worlds that are closely intertwined in all the beauty, ugliness, and honesty of nature.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Animals at Night, Book Review, Books of 2022, Dead Ink Books, Naomi Booth

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  • Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London
    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
  • Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum
    By Lisa Goodrum
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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