Rebecca Tamás
Rebecca Tamás | |
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| Born | 1988 London, England |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, critic, editor |
| Alma mater | University of Warwick and University of Edinburgh and University of East Anglia |
| Genre | Poetry, essays |
| Relatives | Gáspár Miklós Tamás (father) |
Rebecca Tamás is a British poet, writer, critic and editor, the daughter of Hungarian philosopher and public intellectual Gáspár Miklós Tamás. She was born in London in 1988.[1] She studied creative writing at the University of Warwick and at the University of Edinburgh, where she won the Grierson Verse Prize,[2] before completing a PhD at the University of East Anglia.[1] She is a lecturer in creative writing at York St John University where she co-convenes The York Centre for Writing Poetry Series.[3]
She is the editor, with Sarah Shin, of the anthology Spells: 21st-century Occult Poetry (Ignota Press, 2018). 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). In 2020 she published the prose collection Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman.[4]
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 February 1, 2024.[5] Freya-Cohen's opera WITCH, with libretto by Ruth Mariner, was inspired by the Rebecca Tamás collection of the same name. It was staged at the Royal Academy of Music in 2022.[6]
Works[edit]
Poetry[edit]
- The Ophelia Letters (Salt Publishing, 2013) ISBN 9781844719525
- Savage (Clinic, 2017) ISBN 9780993318245
- Tiger (Bad Betty Press, 2018)
- WITCH (Penned in the Margins, 2019)[7] ISBN 9781908058621
Essay[edit]
- Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman (Makina Books, 2020) ISBN 9781916060890
Awards[edit]
- 2016: Manchester Poetry Prize[8]
- 2017: Fenton Arts Trust Emerging Writer Award[9]
- 2017: London Review of Books Bookshop Pamphlet of the Year[10]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Rebecca Tamas". www.poetryinternational.com. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ Tamás, Rebecca (2013). The Ophelia Letters. Salt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84471-952-5.
- ^ "Rebecca Tamás". tribunemag.co.uk. 16 February 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ "Rebecca Tamás introduces new book Strangers: The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ Richard Morrison. 'Spell Book review', in The Times, 2 February 2024
- ^ 'World Premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen's Witch', Harrison Parrott
- ^ "The best recent poetry – review roundup". the Guardian. 6 April 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ University, Manchester Metropolitan. "Manchester Writing Competition 2016, Manchester Metropolitan University". Manchester Metropolitan University. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ "Hera Lindsay Bird and Rebecca Tamás". Pages of Hackney. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ Tamás, Rebecca (4 February 2019). "Rebecca Tamás on Anne Carson". Frieze. No. 200. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- Living people
- 1988 births
- Writers from London
- 20th-century British poets
- 21st-century British poets
- 20th-century British women writers
- 21st-century British women writers
- Alumni of the University of Warwick
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- People associated with York St John University
- British women essayists
- Alumni of the University of East Anglia