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Rebecca Tamás
REBECCA TAMÁS is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. Her pamphlet Savage was published by Clinic, and was a LRB Bookshop pamphlet of the year, and a Poetry School book of the year. Rebecca’s first full-length poetry collection, WITCH, was published by Penned in the Margins in March 2019. She is editor, together with Sarah Shin, of Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry, published by Ignota Books. Her collection Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman was published by Makina Books in October 2020.  

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Interview with Ariana Reines

Interview

July 2019

Rebecca Tamás

Interview

July 2019

I first became aware of Ariana Reines’s work through her early poetry collection The Cow (2006), which went on to win the prestigious Alberta Prize. I...

Essay

Issue No. 24

The Songs of Hecate: Poetry and the Language of the Occult

Rebecca Tamás

Essay

Issue No. 24

  I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have...

There is no better distillation of the rich history of this sceptred isle than the English country house Foxgrove Hall is one such example In 1732, Edgar Lakeland constructed the estate with a fortune accrued from business dealings in the West Indies Upon his marriage to the daughter of a prominent landowner in Barbados, he returned to England to manage the investments from his newly-acquired landholdings The house itself sits on a 300 hectare estate of pristine parkland on the southern border of Gloucestershire Approaching from the north drive, one cannot help but admire the building’s imposing facade, constructed entirely from locally-quarried stone Large Corinthian pilasters support an elaborately stuccoed portico emblazoned with the family’s coat of arms: typical flourishes of Yorkshire-born architect John Carr The main hall, painstakingly preserved by Lakeland’s descendants, remains one of the finest examples of the architecture of the period Visitors to Foxgrove can expect to enjoy an unparalleled collection of Baroque art, and must be sure to drop by for a spot of tea at the café in the Kitchen Gardens   Extract from The Treasure Houses of England by Jonathan S Bailey, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963)   I am delighted to inform you that your application for the position of Writer in Residence at Foxgrove Hall has been accepted Your proposed exploration of historic connections between the Caribbean and the English countryside was met with much interest by the judging panel We look forward to welcoming you to Foxgrove in the summer   Extract from letter to Ms Cecilia Braithwaite, from the Office of the Director of Public Engagement, English Heritage archives   *   9 June   Everything about this place feels unreal The house, the people, even my view From the window by  my desk, I can see the sweeping slope of lawn that falls onto the southern terrace The grass is the acid green of those sweets I used to love What were they called? They were all sour and made your mouth pucker up – Toxic Waste And the weather is glorious A real Indian summer, Mr

Contributor

July 2015

Rebecca Tamás

Contributor

July 2015

REBECCA TAMÁS is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. Her pamphlet Savage was published by Clinic, and...

Interrogations

poetry

Issue No. 14

Rebecca Tamás

poetry

Issue No. 14

INTERROGATION (1)     Are you a witch?   Are you   Have you had relations with the devil?   Have you   Have...

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Interview

March 2017

Interview with Rodrigo Hasbún

Enea Zaramella

Rodrigo Hasbún

TR. Sophie Hughes

Interview

March 2017

Rodrigo Hasbún (born Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1981) has published two novels and a collection of short stories; he was selected...

feature

February 2014

Only Responsible to Their Art: Heilan and the Chinese Avant-Garde

Chen Wei

TR. Tu Qiang

feature

February 2014

Heilan was established for a simple reason: over the past twenty years, there has not emerged a single medium...

fiction

Issue No. 1

From the Town

Desmond Hogan

fiction

Issue No. 1

In the grape hyacinth blue jersey – yellow strip at V-neck, blue tie, navy trousers of Kinsale Community School,...

 

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