Rebecca Tamás
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}}{{Short description|British poet and academic (born 1988)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Rebecca Tamás
| birth_date = 1988
| birth_place = London, England
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| alma_mater = University of Warwick and University of Edinburgh and University of East Anglia
| occupation = Poet, writer, critic, editor
| genre = Poetry, essays
}}
Rebecca Tamás (born 1988){{Cite web|first=Emily|last=Hasler |title=Rebecca Tamas |url=https://www.poetryinternational.com/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-30140_Tamas |access-date=2022-11-17 |website=www.poetryinternational.com |language=en}} 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,{{cite news |title=Rebecca Tamás wins 2016 Manchester Poetry Prize |url=https://www.newwriting.net/2016/11/rebecca-tamas-wins-2016-manchester-poetry-prize |access-date=25 October 2024 |work=New Writing |date=November 2016}} before completing a PhD at the University of East Anglia. She is a lecturer in creative writing at York St John University, where she co-convenes The York Centre for Writing Poetry Series.{{Cite web |title=Rebecca Tamás |url=https://tribunemag.co.uk/author/rebecca-tamas |access-date=2022-11-17 |website=tribunemag.co.uk |date=16 February 2021 |language=en-GB}}
Work
Tamás is the editor, with Sarah Shin, of the anthology Spells: 21st-century Occult Poetry (Ignota Press, 2018).{{cite news | last=Estruch | first=Sarala | title=Millennial mysticism: why contemporary poets are turning to the occult | work=New Statesman | date=16 January 2019 | url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2019/01/spells-21st-century-occult-poetry-review | access-date=25 October 2024}} 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".{{Cite news|first=Ben|last=Wilkinson|date=6 April 2019 |title=The best recent poetry – review roundup |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/06/the-best-recent-poetry-review-ben-wilkinson |access-date=25 October 2024 |work=the Guardian}} Tamás has been described in this is tomorrow magazine as "crafting a world of linguistic ritual and transformation around her".{{cite magazine| last=Hanz| first=Nina | title=Rebecca Tamás: Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman | magazine=this is tomorrow | date=25 February 2021 | url=http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/Rebecca-Tamas-Strangers-Essays-on-the-Human-and-Nonhuman | access-date=25 October 2024}} In 2020, she published the prose collection Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman.{{cite web | last=Clarkson | first=Amy | title=(REVIEW) Strangers by Rebecca Tamás | website=SPAM | date=2 October 2020 | url=https://www.spamzine.co.uk/post/review-strangers-by-rebecca-tam%C3%A1s | access-date=25 October 2024}}{{cite web | first=Peter|last=Reason|title=Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman by Rebecca Tamás | website=Shiny New Books | date=3 December 2020 | url=https://shinynewbooks.co.uk/strangers-essays-on-the-human-and-nonhuman-by-rebecca-tamas | access-date=25 October 2024}}{{cite journal |last1=O'Gorman |first1=Jenny |title=Straddling the Transition - reviewing Strangers by Rebecca Tamás |journal=Psychodynamic Practice |date=2023 |volume=29 |doi=10.1080/14753634.2023.2175714}} MAP Magazine commissioned three responses from artists to the book.{{cite magazine|first=Romy|last=Danielewicz | title=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
| magazine=MAP Magazine | date=26 August 2020 | url=https://mapmagazine.co.uk/chunky-alive-things | access-date=25 October 2024}}
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.{{cite news|first=Richard |last=Morrison|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/spell-book-review-i-was-enchanted-by-these-remarkable-songs-bjlpt83rw |title=Spell Book review: I was enchanted by these remarkable songs|work=The Times |location=London |date= 2 February 2024|access-date=25 October 2024}} Waley-Cohen's opera WITCH, with libretto by Ruth Mariner, was inspired by the Rebecca Tamás collection of the same name.{{cite magazine| last=Evans | first=Anthony | title=Spell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells | magazine=Planet Hugill: the online classical music magazine | date=6 April 2024 | url=https://www.planethugill.com/2024/04/spell-book-witch-stone-fruit-composer.html | access-date=25 October 2024}} It was staged at the Royal Academy of Music in 2022, and at Longborough Festival Opera the same year.[https://www.harrisonparrott.com/birdsong/news/2022-03-18/world-premiere-of-freya-waley-cohens-witch-at-royal-academy-of 'World Premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen's Witch', Harrison Parrott]{{cite web | last=Stone-Ford | first=Lisa | title=Longborough Festival 2022 – Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero & Freya Waley-Cohen's Spell Book | website=The Classical Source | date=2 August 2022 | url=https://www.classicalsource.com/concert/longborough-festival-2022-francesca-caccinis-la-liberazione-di-ruggiero-freya-waley-cohens-spell-book/ | access-date=25 October 2024}} 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".
Tamás's writing has appeared in publications including London Review of Books,{{Cite web |last=Tamás |first=Rebecca |title=Rebecca Tamás |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/rebecca-tamas |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=London Review of Books |language=en-GB}} Financial Times,{{Cite web |title=Rebecca Tamás |url=https://www.ft.com/stream/344b5379-d80e-47de-b9e7-94ee56c6cc6a |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=www.ft.com |language=en-GB}} The Poetry Review, The White Review,{{Cite web |title=Rebecca Tamás |url=https://www.thewhitereview.org/contributor_bio/rebecca-tamas/ |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=The White Review |language=en-US}} The Guardian,{{Cite web |title=Rebecca Tamás {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/rebecca-tam-s |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=www.theguardian.com}} ArtReview,{{Cite web |title=Rebecca Tamás |url=https://artreview.com/author/rebacca-tamas/ |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=artreview.com |language=en}} and Frieze.{{Cite web |title=Rebecca Tamás - MacDowell Fellow in Literature |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/rebecca-tam%C3%A1s |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=MacDowell |language=en}}
Tamás was the joint winner of the 2016 Manchester Poetry Prize.
Awards
- 2016: Joint winner, Manchester Poetry Prize{{Cite web |title=Manchester Writing Competition 2016, Manchester Metropolitan University |url=https://www.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/winners/2016/ |access-date=2022-11-17 |website=Manchester Metropolitan University |language=en}}
- 2017: Fenton Arts Trust Emerging Writer Award{{Cite web |title=Hera Lindsay Bird and Rebecca Tamás |url=https://www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/event/hera-lindsay-bird-and-rebecca-tamas-2/ |access-date=2022-11-17 |website=Pages of Hackney |language=en-GB |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117205800/https://www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/event/hera-lindsay-bird-and-rebecca-tamas-2/|archive-date=17 November 2022}}
- 2017: Joint winner, London Review of Books Bookshop Pamphlet of the Year{{Cite news |last=Tamás |first=Rebecca |date=4 February 2019 |title=Rebecca Tamás on Anne Carson |language=en |work=Frieze |issue=200 |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/rebecca-tamas-anne-carson |access-date=2022-11-17 |issn=0962-0672}}
Works
= Poetry =
- The Ophelia Letters (Salt Publishing, 2013) {{ISBN|9781844719525}}{{cite news| first=Paul|last=McMenemy|title=The Ophelia Letters by Rebecca Tamás and The Burning by Anna Selby | work=Sabotage | date=15 November 2013 | url=https://sabotagereviews.com/2013/11/15/the-ophelia-letters-by-rebecca-tamas-and-the-burning-by-anna-selby| access-date=25 October 2024}}
- Savage (Clinic, 2017) {{ISBN|9780993318245}}{{cite journal| first=Annie|last=Muir| title=Edward Doegar, For Now and Rebecca Tamás, Savage (Clinic Press) | journal=The Manchester Review | date=9 August 2017 | url=https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=8390 | access-date=25 October 2024}}{{cite web | title=REBECCA TAMÀS – 'SAVAGE' |first=Charlotte|last=Gann| website=Sphinx Poetry Pamphlet Reviews| url=https://www.sphinxreview.co.uk/index.php/opoi-reviews-2018/rebecca-tamas-savage | access-date=25 October 2024}}
- Tiger (Bad Betty Press, 2018)
- WITCH (Penned in the Margins, 2019) {{ISBN|9781908058621}}{{cite magazine| last=Greer | first=Robert | title=WITCH by Rebecca Tamás | magazine=The London Magazine | date=11 April 2019 | url=https://thelondonmagazine.org/review-witch-by-rebecca-tamas/ | access-date=25 October 2024}}{{cite journal | last=Shaw | first=Imogen | title=Gender, magic, and socialism: Rebecca Tamás's 'WITCH' and the radical potential of occult poetry | journal=The Adroit Journal | date=22 November 2019 | url=https://theadroitjournal.org/2019/11/22/gender-magic-and-socialism-rebecca-tamass-witch-and-the-radical-potential-of-occult-poetry/ | access-date=25 October 2024}}
= Essays =
- Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman (Makina Books, 2020) {{ISBN|9781916060890}}
References
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External links
- [https://thesuburbanreview.com/2016/archives/how-i-write-rebecca-tamas Interview], The Suburban Review, 2016
- [https://alicehiller.info/2019/03/26/i-wanted-to-think-about-the-possibility-of-a-revolution-based-on-female-principles-rebecca-tamas-speaks-with-alice-hiller Interview] with Alice Hillier, 2019
- [https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/poetips-2019-rebecca-tamas Interview], Poetry Book Society, 2019
- [https://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/features/rebecca-tamas-on-the-human-and-nonhuman Interview], "Rebecca Tamás ponders the anthropocene in Strangers", The Skinny, Anahit Behrooz, 2020
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Category:20th-century British poets
Category:20th-century British women writers
Category:21st-century British poets
Category:21st-century British women writers
Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Alumni of the University of Warwick
Category:British women essayists
Category:English people of Hungarian descent