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Category: Arts

An interview with author Siân Hughes: ‘the heart of the mystery is this dangerous ground of motherhood’

22nd May 2023  Rym Kechacha

Rym Kechacha talks with author Siân Hughes about her debut novel, Pearl, the importance of medieval poetry to its themes, motherhood, grief and postpartum depression, and her research and writing process.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Fiction, Interview, Motherhood, Novel, Pearl, postpartum depression, Rym Kechacha, Siân Hughes, The Indigo Press

Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

22nd May 202322nd May 2023  Julia Bagguley

Art historian Julia Bagguley gives an introduction to the extraordinary artist at the centre of Kettle’s Yard’s latest exhibition, Lucie Rie, and celebrates her almost alchemical ability to make stunning pots, buttons, bowls and vases.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Artist, Cambridge, ceramics, craft, Julia Bagguley, Kettle's Yard, Lucie Rie, Pottery, women artists

In conversation with Ennatu Domingo: ‘To belong somewhere new, you have to feel at peace with the place you left behind’

10th May 202310th May 2023  Emily Walters

Our contributor Emily Walters talks to author Ennatu Domingo about the recent publication of her new book, Burnt Eucalyptus Wood, adoption and a nomadic sense of being, the centrality of language to identity, filmic narrative structures and the power of nostalgia in Ethiopian culture.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: adoption, Burnt Eucalyptus Wood, Emily Walters, Ennatu Domingo, essays, Interview, memoir, memory, Migration, The Indigo Press

Escape Room by Bryony Littlefair – deliciously absurd vignettes of the everyday

20th April 2023  Lauren Steele

In Bryony Littlefair’s poetic exploration of the everyday, the dreaded dinner party or 9-5 grind are brilliantly subverted to an absurd extreme exposing the anxieties and struggles experienced by all in a capitalistic, corporately ruled society.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books of 2023, Bryony Littlefair, Escape Room, Lauren Steele, Poetry, poetry collection, Seren Books

An interview with acclaimed author Dr Pragya Agarwal: ‘Men write smart thinking books and women are not taken seriously until they write a memoir.’

19th April 202319th April 2023  Georgia Poplett

Our writer Georgia Poplett talks to scientist and author Dr Pragya Agarwal about what led her to write her latest book, Hysterical, the damaging history of gendered emotions, representation in data, subverting the classics and why the (feminist) future is bright – and furious!

Read More “An interview with acclaimed author Dr Pragya Agarwal: ‘Men write smart thinking books and women are not taken seriously until they write a memoir.’”
Posted in Arts, Books, Health and Wellbeing, InterviewsTagged: Canongate, Emotions, Gender, gendered emotions, Georgia Poplett, Hysterical, Hysterical: Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions, Pragya Agarwal

The Place of Memory/The Memory of Place: Pramila Venkateswaran’s Sthalapurana for Kochi

17th April 2023  Basudhara Roy

Creating a ‘fine latticework of sentiment and language’, Pramila Venkateswaran’s latest poetry collection, We are Not a Museum, resurrects place and memory to become a powerful sthalapurana for the city of Kochi and the lives of the Jewish peoples in it.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Basudhara Roy, Finishing Line Press, Jewish Diaspora, Poetry, poetry collection, Pramila Venkateswaran, South Asian Jews, We are Not a Museum

In conversation with author Ashley Nelson Levy: ‘I wanted to write about the grief that comes with not feeling at home in your body and how your body can dictate the shape of your home.’

9th April 202319th April 2023  Vartika Rastogi

Vartika Rastogi talks to acclaimed author Ashley Nelson Levy about her debut novel Immediate Family, the literary tropes and cultural narratives around adoption, motherhood, the body and female desire since the overturning of Roe v Wade.

Read More “In conversation with author Ashley Nelson Levy: ‘I wanted to write about the grief that comes with not feeling at home in your body and how your body can dictate the shape of your home.’”
Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: adoption, Ashley Nelson Levy, Books of 2022, Daunt Books Originals, Immediate Family, novels, Roe vs Wade, women's bodies

Voyager: The Constellations of Memory by Nona Fernández – a cosmic stellar tapestry

9th April 20239th April 2023  Iona Glen

Nona Fernández’s new book, Voyager: The Constellations of Memory, translated by Natasha Wimmer, combines astronomy’s physics with astrology’s storytelling to express the importance of memory, family and record-keeping.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Astrology, astronomy, Books, Books in translation, Chile, Chilean Literature, Constellations of Memory, Daunt Books Originals, General Pinochet, Natasha Wimmer, Nona Fernández

Formulating an Ethics of Vulnerability: Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart

11th March 2023  Basudhara Roy

Bhanu Kapil’s award-winning poetry collection, How to Wash a Heart, argues for our essential and shared vulnerability as a global society, a keener acceptance of our physical, mental and cultural differences, and a more humane and humanistic social discourse, writes poet and scholar Basudhara Roy. 

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Basudhara Roy, Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart, Liverpool University Press, Migration, Poetry, Poetry Collections

Riambel by Priya Hein: a sensual and deceptively simple evocation of generational slavery

7th March 20238th March 2023  Laetitia Erskine

Priya Hein’s poetic, visceral novel addresses the devastating legacies of slavery, racial injustice and economic disparity in Mauritius, layering the stories of fifteen year old Noemi and those of her enslaved ancestors to lay bare the brutal realities of colonialism, writes Laetitia Erskine.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Indigo Press, Laetitia Erskine, Priya Hein, Riambel

A hunger to be free: James Hannaham’s Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

2nd March 20233rd March 2023  Vartika Rastogi

Hilarious, heartbreaking and unapologetically original, James Hannaham’s Joyce-inspired odyssey of a novel centres trans heroine Carlotta Mercedes and her experience of ‘re-entering society’ after 22 years of unjust incarceration.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: American fiction, Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, Europa Editions, Fiction, James Hannaham, James Joyce, Novel, trans histories, trans identities, Ulysses, Vartika Rastogi

Swanfolk: Strange swan-filled dreams in a near-dystopian future

20th February 2023  Jennifer Brough

This slim poetic prose novel by Kristín Ómarsdóttir and translated by Vala Torodds takes on larger-than-life themes in a world where the imagination bleeds into reality. 

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books in translation, Jennifer Brough, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Novel, Penguin, Penguin Random House, surreal, Swanfolk, Vala Torodds, women translators

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  • An interview with author Siân Hughes: ‘the heart of the mystery is this dangerous ground of motherhood’
    By Rym Kechacha
  • Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
    By Julia Bagguley
  • In conversation with Ennatu Domingo: ‘To belong somewhere new, you have to feel at peace with the place you left behind’
    By Emily Walters
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