Open Access Archive
[Digital Poetics 4.24] Extra-Poetic: On Hasib Hourani’s “rock flight” by Tom Branfoot
Tom Branfoot reviews “rock flight” by Hasib Hourani (Prototype, 2024) reflecting on the tension between language and action in the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
[Digital Poetics 4.22] On Beauty: Timothy Thornton’s “Shapeshifting” by John Wilkinson
"Thornton’s poems are set in a specific landscape, of the shingle coast around Dungeness in Kent, characterised by flatness, the interpenetration of water and land, and shingle’s shifting of the coastline’s definition." John Wilkinson reviews Shapeshifting by Timothy Thornton.
[Digital Poetics 4.10] In the Shade of the Sun at The Mosaic Rooms by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou finds hope, humour, resistance and strength are found in abundance in the Mosaic Rooms' latest exhibition to spotlight four Palestinian artists, In the Shade of the Sun.
Digital Poetics 3.28 A Body of Thought by Richard Capener
Richard Capener reviews Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive by Karenjit Sandhu in which the archive disrupts and is disrupted, a non-site enabling embodied intensities
Digital Poetics 3.27 On ‘New Weathers’ by Kashif Sharma-Patel
Our editor Kashif Sharma-Patel reviews New Weathers (ed. Anne Waldman and Emma Gomis) a collection of lectures dealing with the ecological crisis, social organisation, transgressive identity and the role of poetics
Digital Poetics 3.15 The Remedy is Resistance: On Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi’s ‘Psychoanalysis Under Occupation’ by Jeanine Hourani
In this review, Jeanine Hourani highlights the importance of centering the socio-political, historical and material realities of mental health in Palestine. Honouring the book’s methodological and theoretical approaches, Jeanine amplifies the voices of Palestinian mental health workers and uses a Fanonian, anti-colonial lens to illustrate the revolutionary and liberatory potential of psychoanalysis.
Digital Poetics 3.13 Life over Art: Remembering Baroness Elsa by M. Elijah Sueuga
Writer M. Elijah Sueuga reviews The Baroness, an exhibition showcasing and responding to the legendary Dadaist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, looking into themes of queer embodiment, street life and memory
Review: Pawel Pawlak, 'Oscar Seeks a Friend' by Sascha Aurora Akhtar
A review of Pawel Pawlak, 'Oscar Seeks a Friend' by Sascha Aurora Akhtar