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Tag: Pat Barker

Interview with author Valentine Carter: ‘We know who we are because we know where we’ve come from’

6th October 20216th October 2021  Georgia Poplett

Georgia Poplett talks to author and visual artist, Valentine Carter, about their new book, These Great Athenians, the materiality of texts, breaking the genre of mythology as a non-binary writer, the sense of belonging that resides in myths, writing as a form of weaving and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Athena, Felbrigg Hall, Georgia Poplett, Greek Mythology, Imprint 27, Jack Halberstam, Madeline Miller, Mythology, Nobrow Press, Pat Barker, Penelope, queer literature, Sara Ahmed, Scylla, These Great Athenians, Valentine Carter, weaving

The Pisces by Melissa Broder – a beautiful, effervescent novel rooted in Greek myth

28th July 201930th July 2019  Victoria Smith

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2019, Melissa Broder’s The Pisces is a modern day fable about a woman who falls in love with a merman. Victoria Smith reviews Broder’s debut novel alongside her earlier poetry and essays, Last Sext and So Sad Today.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Anne Carson, Bloomsbury Fiction, Circe, Daisy Johnson, Everything Under, James Joyce, Last Sext, Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, Melissa Broder, Mythos, Pat Barker, So Sad Today, Stephen Fry, T. S. Eliot, The Pisces, the Pre-Raphaelites, The Silence of the Girls
  • Miscarry by Kerry Byrne
    By Kerry Byrne
  • Spin, Thread, Weave by Rym Kechacha
    By Rym Kechacha
  • Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
    By Rebecca Clark
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