Click on the links to read my critical/creative essay entitled: ‘And the House? In Nocturne‘ by Carolyn Forché which was published by Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts as part of a new digital poetry festival, called INSIDE WRITING https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/insidewriting And the house? in Nocturne by Carolyn Forché by Agnieszka Studzińska And the house? in Nocturne by Carolyn Forché
An extract from Anna Souter’s essay on my collaboration with Sandra Beccarelli’s work: “…Beccarelli’s work is similarly produced in the context of an ongoing working relationship with a living writer. Beccarelli’s close collaboration with poet Agnieszka Studzinska is a lively, open-ended dialogue, in which each shares intimate aspects of their craft with the other. Beccarelli, for instance, shares images from her sketchbooks or from the backs of her canvases, while Studzinska sends snapshots from her […]
The Poetics of Space after Bachelard [an introduction] “A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.” My house is sometimes a chair I sit on in a different country, a tent, a beach, the woods I return to in photographs. My grandmother’s hand as it stirred her black tea. My children’s skin on my lips as they leave to walk to school. My house is the language […]
Delighted to be teaching again for the Poetry School in Jan 2020: Poetics of Space after Bachelard. https://poetryschool.com/courses/poetics-of-space-after-bachelard-international/
I had such a brilliant time, showcasing my re-write/translation/interpretation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and hearing the re-writes of Moll Flanders by Martha Pailing and Dracula by Damian le Bass. Just love a commission! https://essexbookfestival.org.uk/rewriting-essex/
What is self & how do I write it? Colossal, tumescent questions hanging & waiting to drop. In their falling the splattered matter of their existence is what poetry picks up (poetry that I like to read & write anyway.) The splattered matter of self. What do I mean by this word self, which often gets kicked around like a football on a tired pitch. One dictionary definition writes this: self: […]
Delighted to be teaching this course at the @poetryschool in May 2019. https://poetryschool.com/courses/writing-self-in-poetry-international/
In Collaboration with Tatiana Faia https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/tatiana-faia/ on the 13th October 2018 @RichMix London.
I am honoured and grateful to have my poem, ‘An essay on the Dragon and the Invisible Creatures’ published in this forthcoming anthology by Boilerhouse Press. Wretched Strangers brings together innovative writing on re-conceptions of ‘shared foreigness’ from around the globe, celebrating the irreducible diversity such work brings to ‘British’ poetry. Proceeds will go to charities fighting for the rights of refugees. Please pre order your copies here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/wretched-strangers
click here for more info: https://essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/a-soviet-childhood/ I am in conversation with Paavo Matsin and Tony Peake exploring living under the influence of communist rule.
