Amir-Hussein Radjy

Nov 27, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Amir-Hussein Radjy |Mark Glanville |Andrew Neilson |Alan Jenkins

The Egyptian poet Joyce Mansour was a leading member of the surrealist group around André Breton. An exile living in Paris, she often made a myth of her life. “I was born in 1928”, she once declared, “at the far end of ancient Greece.” She said her parents were first cousins – a claim that later biographers refuted – but the frisson of incest suited her. She wore heavy kohl and, a family member recalled, left “in her wake an intoxicating smell of jasmine” perfume.

Nov 27, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Mark Glanville |Amir-Hussein Radjy |Andrew Neilson |Alan Jenkins

Veroniki Dalakoura (b.1952) first came to the notice of her translator, John Taylor, after their mutual friend Elias Petropoulos alerted him to her work. It is easy to see how Petropoulos, bard of the rebetiko music of the Greek underworld, might have been drawn to Dalakoura’s shameless, fearless erotic voice and irreverent deconstruction of poetic conventions.

Sep 25, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Kathryn Maris |Naush Sabah |Amir-Hussein Radjy |Mark Glanville

Genevieve Taggard, an American poet active from the 1920s to the 1940s, received accolades current poets in the US might sell their souls for. She published poems and essays in major magazines and taught at prestigious universities. She penned a dozen collections, a respected biography of Emily Dickinson, lyrics for Aaron Copland and a pamphlet for Random House’s Poetry Quartos series, alongside Robert Frost and other luminaries.

Aug 16, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Fiona Green |Naush Sabah |Amir-Hussein Radjy |Mark Glanville

When Emily Dickinson was twenty-four she returned with her family to the Homestead, the ancestral house on Amherst’s Main Street that her father had sold some years before, and which the family was now in a position to take back. She recalled this homecoming in a letter to her friend Elizabeth Holland: I cannot tell you how we moved. I had rather not remember. I believe my “effects” were brought in a bandbox, and the “deathless me”, on foot, not many moments after.

Sep 30, 2023 | thenation.com | Laura Kipnis |Tope Folarin |David Klion |Amir-Hussein Radjy

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