Rebecca Tamás
@rebeccatamas.bsky.social
🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins.
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Pinned
ONE to publish poet Rebecca Tamás' first full-length work of non-fiction
ONE, an imprint of Pushkin Press, is set to publish poet Rebecca Tamás' first full-length work of non-fiction.
www.thebookseller.com
Very glad to finally be able to talk about my upcoming creative nonfiction book on seasonal ritual, wild time and our connection with the natural world; to be published w/the wholly brilliant @pushkinpress.com next year!
Details in the @thebookseller.com -
www.thebookseller.com/rights/one-t...
Details in the @thebookseller.com -
www.thebookseller.com/rights/one-t...
What a beautiful day to be Hungarian 🥲🇭🇺
October 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
What a beautiful day to be Hungarian 🥲🇭🇺
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4 years of work, writing, research & collaboration; a lifetime of thinking. ‘The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and The Ritual Year’ final edits went off to @pushkinpress.com on Friday - feels like a birth and a death all at the same time! Which, honestly, is very apt.
4 years of work, writing, research & collaboration; a lifetime of thinking. ‘The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and The Ritual Year’ final edits went off to @pushkinpress.com on Friday - feels like a birth and a death all at the same time! Which, honestly, is very apt.
October 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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4 years of work, writing, research & collaboration; a lifetime of thinking. ‘The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and The Ritual Year’ final edits went off to @pushkinpress.com on Friday - feels like a birth and a death all at the same time! Which, honestly, is very apt.
4 years of work, writing, research & collaboration; a lifetime of thinking. ‘The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and The Ritual Year’ final edits went off to @pushkinpress.com on Friday - feels like a birth and a death all at the same time! Which, honestly, is very apt.
Happy birthday dear Adorno. Of course you were a Virgo.
happy 9/11—Theodor W. Adorno’s Birthday—to those who celebrate, here’s my translation from a while back of Horkheimer’s 1938 birthday letter to Adorno on dialogue and dialectics! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Translation: Horkheimer's Birthday Letter to Adorno (9/11/1938)
On dialectics and dialogue
open.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Happy birthday dear Adorno. Of course you were a Virgo.
'Our politicians like to say that climate is a complex problem and difficult to solve, but this is false. It is, in fact, extremely easy.'
Brilliantly clear eyed & important article from @jasonhickel.bsky.social on how we can fix the climate crisis right now. 🌎
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/can-...
Brilliantly clear eyed & important article from @jasonhickel.bsky.social on how we can fix the climate crisis right now. 🌎
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/can-...
Can Socialism Solve the Climate Crisis?
Governments globally are failing to combat climate change because they prioritise profit over the planet — for real change, the capitalist mode of production must be overhauled.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
'Our politicians like to say that climate is a complex problem and difficult to solve, but this is false. It is, in fact, extremely easy.'
Brilliantly clear eyed & important article from @jasonhickel.bsky.social on how we can fix the climate crisis right now. 🌎
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/can-...
Brilliantly clear eyed & important article from @jasonhickel.bsky.social on how we can fix the climate crisis right now. 🌎
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/can-...
One day I'll finally write my essay about poets' love for, and obsession with, Houdini.
Looked at this cracker by @niallpoetry.bsky.social at Marjorie’s Table today - stunning. It’s here, with a couple of others: www.badlilies.uk/niall-campbell
September 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
One day I'll finally write my essay about poets' love for, and obsession with, Houdini.
I suppose it should be some weak comfort that with each ill advised, morally bankrupt lurch to the right, Labour dooms itself more thoroughly.
September 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I suppose it should be some weak comfort that with each ill advised, morally bankrupt lurch to the right, Labour dooms itself more thoroughly.
Reposted by Rebecca Tamás
Another horror story of a Palestinian student with a full scholarship at Glasgow Uni trapped in Gaza because of Home Office Bureaucracy. He has two weeks until his course starts.
August 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Another horror story of a Palestinian student with a full scholarship at Glasgow Uni trapped in Gaza because of Home Office Bureaucracy. He has two weeks until his course starts.
Reposted by Rebecca Tamás
🚨 Haia Mohammed on @bbclondon.bsky.social nNews yesterday from Gⓐza on hoping to take up her Goldsmiths scholarship in September & the biometric visa block.
🚨 Please amplify & write your MP to encourage the govt to see sense.
Letter template: bit.ly/44SLnX9
🚨 Please amplify & write your MP to encourage the govt to see sense.
Letter template: bit.ly/44SLnX9
August 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
🚨 Haia Mohammed on @bbclondon.bsky.social nNews yesterday from Gⓐza on hoping to take up her Goldsmiths scholarship in September & the biometric visa block.
🚨 Please amplify & write your MP to encourage the govt to see sense.
Letter template: bit.ly/44SLnX9
🚨 Please amplify & write your MP to encourage the govt to see sense.
Letter template: bit.ly/44SLnX9
Very glad to finally be able to talk about my upcoming creative nonfiction book on seasonal ritual, wild time and our connection with the natural world; to be published w/the wholly brilliant @pushkinpress.com next year!
Details in the @thebookseller.com -
www.thebookseller.com/rights/one-t...
Details in the @thebookseller.com -
www.thebookseller.com/rights/one-t...
ONE to publish poet Rebecca Tamás' first full-length work of non-fiction
ONE, an imprint of Pushkin Press, is set to publish poet Rebecca Tamás' first full-length work of non-fiction.
www.thebookseller.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Very glad to finally be able to talk about my upcoming creative nonfiction book on seasonal ritual, wild time and our connection with the natural world; to be published w/the wholly brilliant @pushkinpress.com next year!
Details in the @thebookseller.com -
www.thebookseller.com/rights/one-t...
Details in the @thebookseller.com -
www.thebookseller.com/rights/one-t...
Was glad to review new poetry collections from Frederick Seidel; Nina Mingya Powles; Jay Wright, David Morley & Rachael Boast (ed) in today's Saturday @theguardian.com !
Some really beautiful & urgent work to explore 🍃
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Some really beautiful & urgent work to explore 🍃
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Passion by David Morley; Versus Versus edited by Rachael Boast; So What by Frederick Seidel; In the Hollow of the Wave by Nina Mingya Powles; Transfigurations by Jay Wright
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Was glad to review new poetry collections from Frederick Seidel; Nina Mingya Powles; Jay Wright, David Morley & Rachael Boast (ed) in today's Saturday @theguardian.com !
Some really beautiful & urgent work to explore 🍃
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Some really beautiful & urgent work to explore 🍃
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Literally wrote to my friend yesterday 'why isn't Fanny Howe published in this accursed country,' and now I find out she's dead. The og, the blueprint, the oracle. The hugest loss to poetry and art and life.
griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/i-wont-...
griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/i-wont-...
[I won’t be able to write from the grave] - Griffin Poetry Prize
I won’t be able to write from the grave so let me tell you what I love: oil, vinegar, salt, lettuce, brown bread, butter, cheese and wine, a windy day, a fireplace, the children nearby, poems and song...
griffinpoetryprize.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Literally wrote to my friend yesterday 'why isn't Fanny Howe published in this accursed country,' and now I find out she's dead. The og, the blueprint, the oracle. The hugest loss to poetry and art and life.
griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/i-wont-...
griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/i-wont-...
The left is/can be fun, sexy, beloved, joyful. Try and watch this without beaming - he makes his constituents so happy!
British left - this can be us baby. The only way is up. 🌞
British left - this can be us baby. The only way is up. 🌞
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The left is/can be fun, sexy, beloved, joyful. Try and watch this without beaming - he makes his constituents so happy!
British left - this can be us baby. The only way is up. 🌞
British left - this can be us baby. The only way is up. 🌞
Really excited to teach this online Advanced Poetry course for Faber Academy with Daljit Nagra this Autumn!
It begins Sept 29th, and I truly think it will be a unique space for poetic development. I can’t wait to meet the students. ✨✨✨
Details are here - faberacademy.com/product/adva...
It begins Sept 29th, and I truly think it will be a unique space for poetic development. I can’t wait to meet the students. ✨✨✨
Details are here - faberacademy.com/product/adva...
Advanced Poetry – 29 September 2025 | Faber Academy
If you’re a committed aspiring poet hoping to take your writing to the next level, join Daljit Nagra and Rebecca Tamás for this six-month course at the home of British poetry.
faberacademy.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Really excited to teach this online Advanced Poetry course for Faber Academy with Daljit Nagra this Autumn!
It begins Sept 29th, and I truly think it will be a unique space for poetic development. I can’t wait to meet the students. ✨✨✨
Details are here - faberacademy.com/product/adva...
It begins Sept 29th, and I truly think it will be a unique space for poetic development. I can’t wait to meet the students. ✨✨✨
Details are here - faberacademy.com/product/adva...
Reposted by Rebecca Tamás
PREORDER (31.08.2025):
Lucy Hurst’s Gut Feeling is a fiercely intelligent and formally dynamic collection that interrogates illness, vulnerability, and survival through a visceral, unflinching poetics.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Lucy Hurst’s Gut Feeling is a fiercely intelligent and formally dynamic collection that interrogates illness, vulnerability, and survival through a visceral, unflinching poetics.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
June 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
PREORDER (31.08.2025):
Lucy Hurst’s Gut Feeling is a fiercely intelligent and formally dynamic collection that interrogates illness, vulnerability, and survival through a visceral, unflinching poetics.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Lucy Hurst’s Gut Feeling is a fiercely intelligent and formally dynamic collection that interrogates illness, vulnerability, and survival through a visceral, unflinching poetics.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Really looking forward to this magical @edbookfest.bsky.social event on the 21st of August!
We'll discuss the @silver-press.bsky.social reissue of 'Spells' as well as the occult potential of poetic language to change the world around us. 🔮✨
Tickets here - www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
We'll discuss the @silver-press.bsky.social reissue of 'Spells' as well as the occult potential of poetic language to change the world around us. 🔮✨
Tickets here - www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Fiona Benson, Sarah Shin & Rebecca Tamás: Casting Spells
From Thu 21 Aug - Poetry can be bewitching: the words on the page enchant your mind and rearrange the way you think. Join the writers today as they explore poetry's magical grip on all of us…
www.edbookfest.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Really looking forward to this magical @edbookfest.bsky.social event on the 21st of August!
We'll discuss the @silver-press.bsky.social reissue of 'Spells' as well as the occult potential of poetic language to change the world around us. 🔮✨
Tickets here - www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
We'll discuss the @silver-press.bsky.social reissue of 'Spells' as well as the occult potential of poetic language to change the world around us. 🔮✨
Tickets here - www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Honoured to see ‘Strangers’ included in this hydrofeminist round up for @literaryhub.bsky.social !
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Hot, Moist, Hydrofeminist: Seven Sapphic Books with Themes of Water and Fludity
When it comes to the Sapphic body in fiction and hydrofeminist texts, there’s one undeniable, recurring quality: it’s wet. This fluidity of the Sapphic body means it can shift between many physical…
lithub.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Honoured to see ‘Strangers’ included in this hydrofeminist round up for @literaryhub.bsky.social !
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lithub.com/hot-moist-hy...
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Reposted by Rebecca Tamás
Ghazal Mosadeq of @pamenarpress
has translated Parnia's "The Extinguished Star"
pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...
has translated Parnia's "The Extinguished Star"
pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...
Parnia Abbasi, a 24-year-old Iranian poet, has been killed in last night's attacks by Israel against a residential complex in Tehran's Sattarkhan neighborhood. Her younger brother and parents were also killed in the airstrikes.
May her memory be a blessing
May her memory be a blessing
June 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Ghazal Mosadeq of @pamenarpress
has translated Parnia's "The Extinguished Star"
pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...
has translated Parnia's "The Extinguished Star"
pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...
If you’ll be at Ledbury Poetry Festival this month, it’d be great to see you at this event!
I’ll be discussing ‘Weird England’ on the 28th with brilliant poet Zaffar Kunial
and brilliant folklorist and writer Lally MacBeth. 🌝🌿🌝🌿
Tickets here:
ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on/
I’ll be discussing ‘Weird England’ on the 28th with brilliant poet Zaffar Kunial
and brilliant folklorist and writer Lally MacBeth. 🌝🌿🌝🌿
Tickets here:
ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on/
June 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
If you’ll be at Ledbury Poetry Festival this month, it’d be great to see you at this event!
I’ll be discussing ‘Weird England’ on the 28th with brilliant poet Zaffar Kunial
and brilliant folklorist and writer Lally MacBeth. 🌝🌿🌝🌿
Tickets here:
ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on/
I’ll be discussing ‘Weird England’ on the 28th with brilliant poet Zaffar Kunial
and brilliant folklorist and writer Lally MacBeth. 🌝🌿🌝🌿
Tickets here:
ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on/
Wrote this for @grantamag.bsky.social in 2019.
Yet the last few weeks alone it's already been 3 book events/literary festivals (some big names in there) who I've had to chase to put the accent on my name. Small scale but frustrating effort. I wonder if it'll ever change?
granta.com/the-power-of...
Yet the last few weeks alone it's already been 3 book events/literary festivals (some big names in there) who I've had to chase to put the accent on my name. Small scale but frustrating effort. I wonder if it'll ever change?
granta.com/the-power-of...
The Power of a Name
‘When English is the dominant everything, you can’t help wanting to fight for the little speck of the rest of your self.’
granta.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Wrote this for @grantamag.bsky.social in 2019.
Yet the last few weeks alone it's already been 3 book events/literary festivals (some big names in there) who I've had to chase to put the accent on my name. Small scale but frustrating effort. I wonder if it'll ever change?
granta.com/the-power-of...
Yet the last few weeks alone it's already been 3 book events/literary festivals (some big names in there) who I've had to chase to put the accent on my name. Small scale but frustrating effort. I wonder if it'll ever change?
granta.com/the-power-of...
The crew of the Madleen have been abducted by Israel, a ship under a British flag.
They are all in danger, and the British government has a responsibility to them. You can email the foreign office to record your concerns at fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk.
They are all in danger, and the British government has a responsibility to them. You can email the foreign office to record your concerns at fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk.
Israel illegally boarded a humanitarian mission in international waters with heavy weaponry, then disappeared the crew. Al Jazeera is the only one I can find that is reporting on this without Israeli fluff or propaganda.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Israeli commandos taking Gaza-bound aid ship, Madleen, to Israel
The Madleen crew is being detained by Israeli forces after their ship was stopped close to 160km (100 miles) from Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The crew of the Madleen have been abducted by Israel, a ship under a British flag.
They are all in danger, and the British government has a responsibility to them. You can email the foreign office to record your concerns at fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk.
They are all in danger, and the British government has a responsibility to them. You can email the foreign office to record your concerns at fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk.
Stunning to imagine a life in which the first time you experience gender-based oppression is when you're old enough to get pregnant! What magical realm was she living in until this point exactly?
arguing that having babies makes you more of a woman, feministly
June 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Stunning to imagine a life in which the first time you experience gender-based oppression is when you're old enough to get pregnant! What magical realm was she living in until this point exactly?
If you've been lucky enough to hear a nightingale in the wild, you know you'll never forget it. Keir Starmer should go down to Lodge Hill, and listen, and be changed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘All the birdsong in the world in one sound’: England’s nightingale haven at risk from planning bill
Conservationists warn that losing Lodge Hill in Kent to housing could be a catastrophe for one of Britain’s most at-risk birds
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
If you've been lucky enough to hear a nightingale in the wild, you know you'll never forget it. Keir Starmer should go down to Lodge Hill, and listen, and be changed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Recently finished @biidaasamose.bsky.social’s stunning work of environmental enquiry, thought & philosophy ‘Theory of Water.’
It considers Nishnaabe indigenous approaches to the land, to colonial capitalism & to interconnected, radical being.
So many ‘eco-books’ disappoint, but not this one!
🌊🌊
It considers Nishnaabe indigenous approaches to the land, to colonial capitalism & to interconnected, radical being.
So many ‘eco-books’ disappoint, but not this one!
🌊🌊
June 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Recently finished @biidaasamose.bsky.social’s stunning work of environmental enquiry, thought & philosophy ‘Theory of Water.’
It considers Nishnaabe indigenous approaches to the land, to colonial capitalism & to interconnected, radical being.
So many ‘eco-books’ disappoint, but not this one!
🌊🌊
It considers Nishnaabe indigenous approaches to the land, to colonial capitalism & to interconnected, radical being.
So many ‘eco-books’ disappoint, but not this one!
🌊🌊
Fascinating essay by Elaine Khan on poetry, shame & parenthood.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
On Shame: In the Realm of Death and Awe
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
June 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Fascinating essay by Elaine Khan on poetry, shame & parenthood.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Reposted by Rebecca Tamás
I remember having a conversation with a friend about what the best art is 'about' and she said 'the human condition - what it means to be human.' I found that really helpful... I'm interested in everything that ISN'T human. @rebeccatamas.bsky.social
www.ambientreceiver.org/rebecca-tamas
www.ambientreceiver.org/rebecca-tamas
. Ambient Receiver | Journal of Creative Ecologies
www.ambientreceiver.org
May 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I remember having a conversation with a friend about what the best art is 'about' and she said 'the human condition - what it means to be human.' I found that really helpful... I'm interested in everything that ISN'T human. @rebeccatamas.bsky.social
www.ambientreceiver.org/rebecca-tamas
www.ambientreceiver.org/rebecca-tamas