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Chris Newlove Horton
Chris Newlove Horton is a writer living in London.

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Prize Entry

April 2016

Chris Newlove Horton

Prize Entry

April 2016

He said, ‘Tell me about yourself.’ He said, ‘Tell me about you.’ He said, ‘Tell me everything. I’m interested.’ He said, ‘I want to...

fiction

April 2015

Heavy

Chris Newlove Horton

fiction

April 2015

It is a two lane road somewhere in North America. The car is pulled onto the shoulder with the...

How can we mourn the dead within the context of historical violence, trauma and political oppression? How can their memory be honoured? And what is the role of music and poetry in such an endeavour? The incendiary, intensely memorable poems in Valzhyna Mort’s third collection Music for the Dead and Resurrected (2020) explore both personal and collective narratives of Belarusian history Mort imaginatively traverses languages, times and realities, breaking through ancestral silences to recuperate a uniquely female and feminist voice   My interview with Mort began in the winter of 2021, on the cusp of a new year Mort was born in Minsk and currently lives in the US where she teaches at Cornell University Our conversation was conducted on Zoom between the US and England and continued in 2022 while she was in Rome on a writer’s fellowship We spoke about her three full-length collections, Factory of Tears (2008), Collected Body (2011) and Music for the Dead and Resurrected (2020) We discussed – amongst other things – the city of Minsk, where she grew up, and the impact of the Soviet Union on her writing, the Belarusian forest and fairytale traditions, the significant roles that her grandmother and other women played in her upbringing, her work as a translator, God and godlessness and the influence of Russian and Polish poetry    Music is one of the key tropes through which Mort articulates her aesthetic concerns Music for the Dead and Resurrected honours the lyric connections between poetry and music, the mutual resonances of the two art forms, and the power they exert over the reader and listener In a 2021 interview for the Poetry Review – citing Anne Carson’s essay ‘The Gender of Sound’ (1995) – Mort refers to herself as a poet who comes ‘from a tradition of women who sing in order to lose control’ She states: ‘A spilling voice allows a person to leave her human body The Greek ekstasis, which involves uncontrollable voice, means “to stand outside oneself” To stand outside oneself is to stand outside your lyrical I, your musical I, which is, in fact, your

Contributor

August 2014

Chris Newlove Horton

Contributor

August 2014

Chris Newlove Horton is a writer living in London.

James Richards: Not Blacking Out...

Art

December 2011

Chris Newlove Horton

Art

December 2011

Artist James Richards appropriates audio-visual material gathered from a range of sources, which he then edits into elaborate, fragmented collages.   But whereas his...

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Art

November 2015

None of this is Real

Anna Coatman

Art

November 2015

Rachel Maclean’s films are startlingly new and disturbingly familiar. Splicing fairy tales with reality television shows, tabloid stories, Disney...

Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

Grace

Sophie Mackintosh

Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

14. It comes for me in the middle of the day when I am preparing lunch, quartering a tomato...

poetry

Issue No. 14

Interrogations

Rebecca Tamás

poetry

Issue No. 14

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

 

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