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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Sara Ahmed: Hope Street Writer in Residence 2026 Public Lecture at Paul Brett Lecture Theatre, Yoko Ono Lennon Centre
Tickets are now available for Sara Ahmed: Hope Street Writer in Residence 2026 Public Lecture at Paul Brett Lecture Theatre, Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, Liverpool on Thu 12 Nov 2026. Click the link for fu...
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Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A huge congratulations to our Pavilion poet Theresa Muñoz whose collection Archivum has been shortlisted for this year’s Derek Walcott Prize! Well done to all of those who have been shortlisted. Find out more: arrowsmithpress.com/walcott @munozpoems.bsky.social
Promotional graphic for the 2026 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry shortlist. The design features the heading “SHORTLIST 2026” and “2026 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry” above the Arrowsmith Press logo. A pink book cover titled Archivum by Theresa Muñoz is displayed on the left, with an author photograph on the right. At the bottom, the text reads “Theresa Muñoz” and “Archivum”. The graphic uses a pink, cream and black colour palette.
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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A fascinating conversation between Jennifer Lee Tsai and @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social features online @poetrylondon.bsky.social. They were discussing the connections between their debut collections Melete and Divinations on Survival (@livunipress.bsky.social). poetrylondon.co.uk/communing-wi...
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Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A beautiful poem for a summer afternoon. Wilder by Jemma Borg is available on our website: bit.ly/PPWilder
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Wilder | Home
Ebook available to libraries as part of
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Archive on 4 - Writing Our Mothers - BBC Sounds
A journey into the ways women writers have written the mother.
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Thinking about war and pastoral in July – a while ago I wrote a response to ‘As the Team’s Head-Brass’ by Edward Thomas. It is based on an encounter I had as I walked the Ridgeway one summer: www.bathmagg.com/sashadugdale/
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Sasha Dugdale — bath magg
Sasha Dugdale - Hedgecutter
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 05/07/2026
In this high-concept hybrid work, Deryn Rees-Jones summons a vivid fever dream of Paris, a city simultaneously real and mythologised, where place is sodden with memory and time seems to exist all at once
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Poetry Review: Hôtel Amour by Deryn Rees-Jones
CJ Wagstaff Few poets navigate the terrain of grief and memory with the same authority and daring as Deryn Rees-Jones. Celebrated both as a writer and Professor of Poetry, Rees-Jones has long establis...
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congratulations to Judith Palmer, Director of The Poetry Society, for her award of The RSL Benson Medal. Richly deserved !
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I am hosting the launch of @leeannequinn.bsky.social new @carcanet.bsky.social collection on 7 July. Please sign up as this is a really superb book of poems and you will kick yourself later for missing its name day! www.carcanet.co.uk/events/lands...
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Landscape with Question: Carcanet Online Launch - Carcanet Press
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Landscape with Question by Leeanne Quinn, hosted by Sasha Dugdale. The event will feature readings and
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Here is @leeannequinn.bsky.social writing about her new @carcanet.bsky.social collection Landscape with Question and how it draws together personal memory into meditations on image, time and space carcanet.substack.com/p/landscape-...
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Landscape with Question: Leeanne Quinn
Leeanne Quinn introduces her new collection
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Always great to see the fantastic work the #EnglishAssociation does @englishassociation.bsky.social and today to celebrate the winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Huge congratulations to Susannah Dickey, this year’s winner, for ‘Isdal’
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Hilary Watson poet @poetryhilary.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Really pleased that my first full collection is being published by @serenbooks.bsky.social and will be out next month. More details and preorders on the Seren website: www.serenbooks.com/book/menager... #MenagerieStreet #Thrutopia #Thrutopoetry
Menagerie Street by Hilary Watson - publishing 22 July 2026. My first collection - a cat is claw out peering out of a house door, welcoming you in.
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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Pleased that Gurminder Sikand has two early paintings in the group show 'Diaphanous' at Indigo+Madder in London. Thursdays to Saturdays, or by appointment, till 20th June 2026.
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Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I've introduced some new mentoring packages, as of Spring 2026. Get in touch for more info: rebeccagoss.wordpress.com/tutoring/
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MENTORING
I provide private, one-to-one mentoring (online) for the development of poetry writing projects and manuscripts. The packages I offer suit poets who have some experience already, either starting to…
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Thank you @jonathansellis.bsky.social and all the organisers and participants for a great conference on postcards, poetry and aesthetics.. with a great deal of #ElizabethBishop too!
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
On Monday I’m talking about Rilke with Karen Leeder, a brilliant & generous translator and thinker. We’ll be talking about correspondences between poets and how generative they can be (I’m working on Tsvetaeva’s poems addressed to Rilke): www.hausfuerpoesie.org/en/program/i...
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IM JUNIVERSUM VON RILKE
Das Haus für Poesie (ehemals Literaturwerkstatt Berlin) fördert und unterstützt seit seiner Gründung 1991 alle Bereiche der Literatur, insbesondere die Dichtkunst, sowohl als geschriebenes Wort als au...
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This news has shocked me to the core. I have been carrying around a proof of Marsman’s recent ‘On Another Planet They Can Save Me’ like a talisman since I read it. ‘Life is suffering, and more importantly, suffering is Life!’
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douwe @dwskkm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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The internet has a great deal to offer Someone who doesn’t wish to dwell For whom every breath is a distraction Pulsing lung tumours The man in the street Is always right The ...
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Deeply sad to hear news that Lieke Marsman died yesterday: we had the privilege of publishing @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social ‘The Following Scan will Last Five Minutes’, trans. Sophie Collins. Lieke was a force of intellect and brilliance. I’m thinking of those close to her today #LiekeMarsman
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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I am so grateful to Don Mee Choi, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Sasha Dugdale, & Deryn Rees-Jones for spending time with Landscape with Question & giving these incredible endorsements. ❤️ Landscape with Question is published next month by @carcanet.bsky.social www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...


    ‘Who is this “I” that appears relentlessly in Landscape with Question? Like the multitude of ghosts that makes up the “you” in Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death, Leeanne Quinn’s “I” is also a multitude, a multitude of eyes that “surely look” and paint the geography of being “among the evidence” of “things under things and things inside things.” Quinn’s geography of evidence captures the inseparable physiognomy of psyches and places—it’s impossible to unlock or unlook at Quinn’s vividly time-filled landscapes. Quinn has created something immense and remarkable. Every poem in Landscape with Question haunts me, each a siren call “from here to here to here.’
    Don Mee Choi

‘Here are provocative meditations, not just on the painter’s illumination of depth and distance, the juxtaposition of live presence and artefact, inside a flat canvas. There is time, its length in life and history. And, again, place (Drogheda, Europe) and perspective:

    How long had I been counting steeples
    from the walls of the old fort?

Such openings on the world light up our thoughts by their sheer originality, and how they are tethered to real places; they validate our existence in space and time.’
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin‘Landscape with Question is a profound and painterly meditation on perception and proportion. Through the study of modernist imagery, Quinn has created an original and expansive philosophy of time and space in poetry. This miraculous book gradually reveals itself to be the work of a poet of emotional grandeur and lyric precision.’
Sasha Dugdale'Leeanne Quinn’s subtle and deeply-intelligent poems ask us to think about time and perception, the small notations of self in the world that settle in a story or a scene. In doing so, Quinn invents a new idiom of speaking with, alongside, and through other lives and texts and images in the landscape of memory and imagination. This is a profound meditation, that pays homage to its touchstones, notably Nano Reid's paintings and Ingeborg Bachmann's philosophical interrogations of language and women's lives. But it is also a book fresh and clear, entirely of itself. The poems haunt and reconfigure being with deftness and care.'
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Congratulations to both Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social & Laura Wainwright who have been shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2026 in the Poetry Category! You can lend them your support by voting in the Nation.Cymru People's Choice Award now nation.cymru/culture/vote...! #WBOTY2026
Graphic showing cover for Hotel Amour and The Storm's Flora alongside the Wales Book of the Year shortlist logo
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Poets get ready... our next submission window for full poetry collections will be reopening on Friday 1 May for 2 weeks! We’ll share more details of exactly what we’re looking for on our submissions page when the window opens so keep an eye out here www.serenbooks.com/submissions/
Poets get ready... Poetry Submissions are reopening on Friday 1 May. Keep an eye on our submissions page for details.
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 06/05/2026
Tickets are still available for our evening of discussion and readings from Blake Morrison and Sinéad Morrissey. These award-winning writers will be discussing the different ways poetry and memoir approach truth-telling. Grab your tickets before they're gone at the link in our bio.
A purple square with black text on a yellow background along the tip reading Poetry and Memoir: Blake Morrison and Sinead Morrissey.' There are four yellow circles in the middle of the square. The top left circle has text reading "an evening of readings and discussion exploring poetry and memoir with award-winning writers Blake Morrison and Sinéad Morrissey, revealing how different ways of truth-telling play out between the two forms." The top left hand circle contains an image of Blake Morrison. The bottom left hand circle contains an image of Sinead Morrissey. The bottom right hand circle contains a location pin and text reading The Poetry Cafe. Along the bottom there is black text reading Tuesday 26 May 2026, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm £6.00 – £8.00.
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I could no more believe the sap insensible than I believe the dead are broken branches, and all their self-songs censored or extinguished. Carol Rumens (1944-2026) (‘Nant y Garth’ from ‘Bezdelki’, 2018, The Emma Press - winner of the Michael Marks Award)
Nant y Garth
As the bus wound its way up Nant y Garth it was as if the birchwoods either side were gathering height. I heard their choirs amassing: bass, tenor, alto, soprano, entering one by one, like green combers, cliffs of melody, with depths and peaks I couldn't fully sense, but knew sang gladness - gladness of the wakened branches, and peeled buds, and leaves called to the sun for the first time, to stream into their year - no, their much-less-than year - of darkening grace.
I could no more believe the sap insensible than I believe the dead are broken branches, and all their self-songs censored or extinguished.
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A week ago we launched three new Pavilion titles. More here on the Liverpool University Press Blog liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/pavilion... @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social #NatalieLinhBolderston #AliceMiller #LindaAnderson
Image of three women writers NatalieLinhBolderston Alice Miller Linda Anderson
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Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Hugely honoured to have my debut collection coming out next spring, alongside two other fabulous-looking books! If you might want to book me for a reading or workshop next year, do drop me an email or message. #NationalPoetryDay #PoetryUK #VietnamesePoet
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Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Our collections our now available to purchase on the LUP website! Find out more here: bit.ly/PavilionPoet...
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Natalie Linh Bolderston reading from her ‘Divinations on Survival’ @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Linda Anderson up next, reading from ‘Against Falling’ @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Alice Miller reading from her new book @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social Here & Thereafter @livunienglish.bsky.social
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Pavilion launch tonight and there are three tickets left! Join us! www.ticketsource.com/school-of-th... @livunienglish.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 27/04/2026
Martha Sprackland (@marrrtha.bsky.social) will be at the Bookshop next month to discuss her new translation of the works of John of the Cross, the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, with James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social). Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/martha-spr...
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’m reading in Oxford with @oliviamcc.bsky.social on 13 May. Please come along – it’s a free poetry event but you need to sign up: www.ticketsource.com/queens-trans...
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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Keats Shelley Poetry Prize announced. Congrats to winner @pascalepetit.bsky.social and thanks to judge @notjustdancing.bsky.social Here’s my runner up poem ‘Some Seasonal Adjustments’ keats-shelley.org/prize_entrie...
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Packed house @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social to celebrate publication of Saul Leslie’s novel ‘A Working Title I Want to Change’ #penguinbooks @livunienglish.bsky.social #firstnovels
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Congratulations to @pascalepetit.bsky.social winner of this year’s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval’ keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats... #keats #poetry #shelley #KSMA
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Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Linda Anderson offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection Against Falling, which is an exploration of time and of ageing. Find out more here: bit.ly/42d6uAY
Green promotional poster for Against Falling by Linda Anderson. Serif typography on dark green background with light green border. Author portrait on left. Keywords read Perception, Time, Liminality. Quotation about creativity and poetic voices below. Liverpool University Press logo and classical building icon at bottom corners, symmetrically aligned overall composition.
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Lots on and a few amends! 🙂
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
@livunienglish.bsky.social
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
In which I talk with the delightful @gregorykearns.bsky.social about stealing books, a railway childhood, translation and the soul’s mobility…. @carcanet.bsky.social
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Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Natalie Linh Bolderston offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection Divinations on Survival, which explores matrilineal heritage, myth and the legacies of war. Find out more here: bit.ly/DOS2026
Purple promotional graphic from Liverpool University Press featuring a portrait of Natalie Linh Bolderston. She faces the camera with long dark hair, wearing a black and red top against a softly blurred background. Text reads “Natalie Linh Bolderston, on Divinations on Survival” with a quoted reflection on memory and inheritance.
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Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Just one month to go until the Pavilion Poetry launch! 🌟📖 Join us for an unforgettable evening with readings from the brilliant Natalie Linh Bolderston, Alice Miller, and Linda Anderson. Tickets are FREE - grab yours here: bit.ly/PavilionLaunch2026 #PavilionPoetry #UniversityofLiverpool #Poetry
Promotional poster for Pavilion Poetry 2026 launch event. Pale blue and navy design with starry background. Text announces free entry, 30 April 2026, 5–7pm, School of Arts Library, Liverpool. Three book covers shown: Divinations on Survival, Here & Thereafter, and Against Falling.
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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Kurt Schwitters Untitled ('Collage mit Straßenbahnbillet') 1927
Dedicated to Marta Hegemann and Anton Räderscheidt, Köln Dada artists immortalised in August Sander's Weimar photos
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
100 year anniversary of the publication of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s ‘Lolly Willowes’ and a conference to celebrate www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lolly-will...
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Looking forward to a nightingale-inflected reading at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome next week with @sashadugdale.bsky.social You can book here ksh.roma.it/events/poetr... or why not listen anyway to Sasha’s essay On Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale #keats #poetry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, An Ode to John Keats, Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats's stunningly fertile year - 1819 - celebrated by five contemporary poets
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Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Angst by Hélène Cixous @foylesforbooks.bsky.social, 17 March Sophie Lewis, Juliet Jacques & Emily Labarge discuss écriture féminine and its influence. They explore Lewis’s translation of ANGST & the demand for freedom at the heart of Cixous's novel. www.foyles.co.uk/events/angst...
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Angst by Hélène Cixous: Sophie Lewis, Juliet Jacques, and Emily LaBarge
A panel celebrating the iconic French feminist writer and theorist Hélène Cixous, and her novel 'Angst', newly translated into English
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
17B Kingsland Road Shoreditch 5-12 March 🌸🌸🌸
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