Rebecca Tamás
Rebecca Tamás | |
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| Born | 1988 London, England |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, critic, editor |
| Alma mater | University of Warwick and University of Edinburgh and University of East Anglia |
| Genre | Poetry, essays |
Rebecca Tamás (born 1988)[1] is a British poet, writer, critic, and editor. She is the daughter of Hungarian philosopher and public intellectual Gáspár Miklós Tamás.
Tamás studied creative writing at the University of Warwick and at the University of Edinburgh, where she won the Grierson Verse Prize,[2] before completing a PhD at the University of East Anglia.[1] She is a lecturer in creative writing at York St John University, where she co-convenes The York Centre for Writing Poetry Series.[3]
Tamás is the editor, with Sarah Shin, of the anthology Spells: 21st-century Occult Poetry (Ignota Press, 2018).[4] She has published three pamphlets of poetry: The Ophelia Letters (Salt, 2013), Savage (Clinic, 2017) and Tiger (Bad Betty Press, 2018), and the full-length poetry collection Witch (Penned in the Margins, 2019). The poet and journalist Ben Wilkinson, writing in The Guardian, said that Witch "has caused a stir, and it's not hard to see why".[5] Tamás has been described in this is tomorrow magazine as "crafting a world of linguistic ritual and transformation around her".[6] In 2020, she published the prose collection Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman.[7][8][9] MAP Magazine commissioned three responses from artists to the book.[10]
The composer Freya Waley-Cohen has set eight poems from WITCH to music: the first complete performance of Spell Book took place at Milton Court in London on 1 February 2024.[11] Waley-Cohen's opera WITCH, with libretto by Ruth Mariner, was inspired by the Rebecca Tamás collection of the same name.[12] It was staged at the Royal Academy of Music in 2022, and at Longborough Festival Opera the same year.[13][14] Waley-Cohen has said that she was attracted to the way Tamás's "language flips between shocking and beautiful, catching your attention and making you see something shocking in a new light".[12]
Tamás's writing has appeared in publications including London Review of Books[15], Financial Times[16], The Poetry Review, The White Review[17], The Guardian[18], ArtReview,[19] and Frieze.[20]
Tamás was the joint winner of the 2016 Manchester Poetry Prize.[2][21]
Works
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- The Ophelia Letters (Salt Publishing, 2013) ISBN 9781844719525[22]
- Savage (Clinic, 2017) ISBN 9780993318245[23][24]
- Tiger (Bad Betty Press, 2018)
- WITCH (Penned in the Margins, 2019) ISBN 9781908058621[25][26]
Essay
[edit]- Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman (Makina Books, 2020) ISBN 9781916060890
Awards
[edit]- 2016: Joint winner, Manchester Poetry Prize[21]
- 2017: Fenton Arts Trust Emerging Writer Award[27]
- 2017: Joint winner, London Review of Books Bookshop Pamphlet of the Year[28]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hasler, Emily. "Rebecca Tamas". www.poetryinternational.com. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ a b "Rebecca Tamás wins 2016 Manchester Poetry Prize". New Writing. November 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Rebecca Tamás". tribunemag.co.uk. 16 February 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ Estruch, Sarala (16 January 2019). "Millennial mysticism: why contemporary poets are turning to the occult". New Statesman. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Wilkinson, Ben (6 April 2019). "The best recent poetry – review roundup". the Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Hanz, Nina (25 February 2021). "Rebecca Tamás: Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman". this is tomorrow. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Clarkson, Amy (2 October 2020). "(REVIEW) Strangers by Rebecca Tamás". SPAM. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Reason, Peter (3 December 2020). "Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman by Rebecca Tamás". Shiny New Books. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ O'Gorman, Jenny (2023). "Straddling the Transition - reviewing Strangers by Rebecca Tamás". Psychodynamic Practice. 29. doi:10.1080/14753634.2023.2175714.
- ^ Danielewicz, Romy (26 August 2020). "Chunky, alive things:Romy Danielewicz concludes a series of three artist responses to 'Strangers'—a new book of essays by Rebecca Tamás, Makina Press, 2020". MAP Magazine. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Morrison, Richard (2 February 2024). "Spell Book review: I was enchanted by these remarkable songs". The Times. London. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ a b Evans, Anthony (6 April 2024). "Spell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells". Planet Hugill: the online classical music magazine. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ 'World Premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen's Witch', Harrison Parrott
- ^ Stone-Ford, Lisa (2 August 2022). "Longborough Festival 2022 – Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero & Freya Waley-Cohen's Spell Book". The Classical Source. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Tamás, Rebecca. "Rebecca Tamás". London Review of Books. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Rebecca Tamás". www.ft.com. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Rebecca Tamás". The White Review. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Rebecca Tamás | The Guardian". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Rebecca Tamás". artreview.com. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Rebecca Tamás - MacDowell Fellow in Literature". MacDowell. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ a b "Manchester Writing Competition 2016, Manchester Metropolitan University". Manchester Metropolitan University. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ McMenemy, Paul (15 November 2013). "The Ophelia Letters by Rebecca Tamás and The Burning by Anna Selby". Sabotage. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Muir, Annie (9 August 2017). "Edward Doegar, For Now and Rebecca Tamás, Savage (Clinic Press)". The Manchester Review. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Gann, Charlotte. "REBECCA TAMÀS – 'SAVAGE'". Sphinx Poetry Pamphlet Reviews. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Greer, Robert (11 April 2019). "WITCH by Rebecca Tamás". The London Magazine. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Shaw, Imogen (22 November 2019). "Gender, magic, and socialism: Rebecca Tamás's 'WITCH' and the radical potential of occult poetry". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Hera Lindsay Bird and Rebecca Tamás". Pages of Hackney. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ Tamás, Rebecca (4 February 2019). "Rebecca Tamás on Anne Carson". Frieze. No. 200. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
External links
[edit]- Interview, The Suburban Review, 2016
- Interview with Alice Hillier, 2019
- Interview, Poetry Book Society, 2019
- Interview, "Rebecca Tamás ponders the anthropocene in Strangers", The Skinny, Anahit Behrooz, 2020
| International | |
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| National | |
- Living people
- 1988 births
- 20th-century British poets
- 20th-century British women writers
- 21st-century British poets
- 21st-century British women writers
- Alumni of the University of East Anglia
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Alumni of the University of Warwick
- British women essayists
- English people of Hungarian descent
- People associated with York St John University
- Writers from London