Celebrating the launch of Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry, an experimental anthology of poetry published by Ignota Press, with a free reading and Q & A from editors Rebecca Tamás and Sarah Shin.
Date and Time
Thu 29 November 2018
14:00 – 15:30 MST
Skel 128
York St John University
Eventbrite link- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spells-21st-century-occult-poetry-tickets-51707686081
Join the editors of ‘Spells: Occult poetry for the 21st Century,’ to discuss their new poetry anthology, and to explore contemporary radical and independent publishing; offering an insider’s insight into the industry.
Spells merges experimental, innovative poetry with explorations of the current political and cultural moment. The anthology brings together thirty-six essential contemporary poetic voices, exploring the territory where justice, selfhood and the imagination meet the transformative power of the occult. These poems unmake the world around them, so that it might be remade anew.
Dr Rebecca Tamás is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John, and a widely published experimental poet, whose work explores the connections between the occult and feminist consciousness. Rebecca’s pamphlet Savage came out with Clinic Press in 2017, and was the London Review Bookshop pamphlet of the year, and a Poetry School book of the year. Her pamphlet Tiger came out in October 2018 with Bad Betty Press, and her first full length collection, WITCH, will be published by Penned in the Margins in 2019.
Sarah Shin is a publisher and curator. She is the creator of New Suns: A Feminist Literary Festival, a bookfair and day of talks, screenings and workshops held at the Barbican Centre in its inaugural year. She is a co-founder and director of Silver Press, a feminist publisher, and Ignota Books, an innovative publishing space at the intersection of technology, myth-making and magic. She is Communications Director at the radical publisher Verso Books.
Both editors will answer questions about the book, the process of editing an anthology, and contemporary writing, and Sarah will talk about radical and independent publishing, and routes into publication and the wider industry. You will be able to buy the anthology at the event, so please bring cash if you wish to do so. You can find an online link for the anthology here- https://ignota.org/
This is set to be an exciting, and in-demand event, so book your place on the eventbrite as soon as possible if you don’t want to miss out!