Strangers

Rebecca Tamás' poetry and criticism has been published widely. She is the co-editor of Spells: Occult Poetry for the 21st Century, with Sarah Shin, published by Ignota Books and her first poetry collection, WITCH was published by Penned in the Margins in 2019; to praise from the Poetry Book Society, the Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, TLS, White Review and The Paris Review. Rebecca is a lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University, where she co-curates The York Centre for Writing Poetry Series. She is represented by Emma Paterson, at Aitken and Alexander.

'A fascinating, lyrical exploration of the eco-political, from human and non-human bodies to landscapes. Tamas' essays are deeply rooted in folklore and the fragility of existence. A stunning work of enquiry and eloquence.' -Sinead Gleeson; 'So full of insight, compassion and reason' -Anthony Anaxagorou; 'Bursting with intellectual generosity. Deep wide roots and radical shoots. ' -Max Porter; 'exciting and clear-eyed' -Melissa Harrison; 'Rebecca Tamas has the ability to bring together our planet's environment with the ecology of the imagination, to retrieve silent life-forms alongside forgotten intellectual movements. This creates a shifting perspective in her essays which illuminates while giving unexpected pleasure.' -Amit Chaudhuri; 'To read Rebecca Tamas is to feel weirdly, uncannily creaturely, and to see all around us as pulsing with meaning.' -Katherine Angel; 'Strangers is a much-needed lesson in how to love--unconditionally and immeasurably--a dying world.' -Jessica J Lee; 'Erudite yet intimate, moving yet fierce, Rebecca Tamas' hungry exploration of the world - occurring at the porous boundary between literary forms - made me rethink what it means to be humane.' -Olivia Sudjic; 'Rebecca Tamas writes searingly on loss, transformation, art and the body. Her writing is tender and sharp, brimming with heat' -Nina Mingya Powles; 'Strangers is an extraordinary, essential book. Both quiet and loud. Strange yet explicit.' -Sara Baume; 'These essays are sharp, purposeful, moving and strange: necessary writing for now.' -Jenn Ashworth; 'The writing in these essays is luminous and urgent, intensely intimate and wildly global. Strangers is an intricate exploration of environmental precarity, literary strangeness, and the importance of the nonhuman.' -Naomi Booth; 'Strangers is a work of generous, optimistic curiosity, one which forgoes the easy promise of a world to come and invites us instead into a relationship of charged "feral intimacy" with a world that is already here.' -Sam Byers; 'Tamas builds a world so intimate for us here, teaching us how to unlearn and relearn, relive and relove.' -Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal; 'This text is an echoing, unstoppable bell.' -Caught by the River (book of the month); 'A passionate and poetic exercise in empathy for everything.' -Between Two Books

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