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Tag: poetry collection

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

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

The Poet in the Machine by Kinneson Lalor and JP Seabright

22nd February 20238th March 2023  Kinneson Lalor

In their new collection Machinations, Kinneson Lalor and JP Seabright take inspiration from Alan Turing and the world of artificial intelligence, creating poems that are conversations not only between two poets, but between poet and machine. Here, they share their experiences when working on the collection, along with some of the resulting poems.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Poetry, STEMTagged: Alan Turing, artificial intelligence, JP Seabright, Kinneson Lalor, Machinations, Poetry, poetry collection, Trickhouse Press

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

Cataclysm by Natalie Perman – a grand debut poetry collection that will astound

7th December 20217th December 2021  Basudhara Roy

Natalie Perman’s impressive debut poetry collection, Cataclysm, hails a new literary voice, one that deftly crosses multiple zones of experience and carefully explores the fragmentation of the Jewish diasporic experience.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Cataclysm, debut, Frosted Fire, Jewish Diaspora, Natalie Perman, pamphlet, Poetry, poetry collection

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

Road Trip by Marvin Thompson – the start of a long and beautiful journey

17th February 202117th February 2021  Shameera Nair Lin

Multiple voices, viewpoints and experiences combine to make Marvin Thompson’s poetry collection, Road Trip, a powerful, sensitive and unforgettable read, writes our contributor, Shameera Nair Lin.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Consent, family, Jazz, Marvin Thompson, Peepal Tree Press, Poetry, poetry collection, prose poems, Road Trip
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