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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...

dear Other, with pink dish   (Flo Reynolds & Cat Woodward)     in the interest of distance let me describe you: the frame of two seats, the little peg to hang a coat here, & here the way the seat cuts into space & fields intrude through the eye which casts the light by which it sees by this token a parable agon arrives at last introducing to this frame an ear where 2 flowers in a jar querulous & orange in the interest of distance (where i live) let me describe to you a rising cannon that burgeons like water how boastful  architectures of elsewhere render the film within the film: power tools to a living forehead & here in my distance drill bits cut  to precious briolettes let me say to you ‘gondwanaland’ through  the moving shapes, let me say sweet gem ‘where did you go?’ & ‘where have all the girls gone?’ & ‘where have all the not-girls gone?’ i have looked all over in this picture place which has an echo, a floor plan with two eyes open (cringe) happy accident is cosy in between: window, door, idea of door, surprise! too big to see its edges,  & holding several years this gallery space a sunken grey radiator  full of colony, this the distance i am goingthrough & into this space letting let now and let let my coat from the peg there let hold the arm i wear let slow let speak too loudly so all consents my coat in the corner slip on before leaving to go now, so letting go quiet and my permission to go quiet and look at it fleshly too much i asking quietly a frame is 5×9 and give                                                                                    remind me at this vertex my body is circumstance & its environs so let the frame i wear turn & consider a girlform (headless armless legless torso, smooth terracotta with bosom) & a not-girlform (helmet the curve of willowleaf, plumes) let hold the

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

September 2012

Interview with Michael Hansmeyer

Lawrence Lek

Interview

September 2012

Every project made with a computer expresses a relationship between aesthetics and technology. The historical progress of technology works...

fiction

Issue No. 2

The Surrealist Section of the Harry Ransom Center

Diego Trelles Paz

TR. Janet Hendrickson

fiction

Issue No. 2

To Enrique Fierro and Ida Vitale—   Just like you, muchachos, I didn’t believe in ghosts, and if I’d...

fiction

January 2013

Car Wash

Patrick Langley

fiction

January 2013

He is sitting on the back seat of a car, somewhere in France. It’s a bright blue day, absurdly...

 

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