Dr Rebecca Tamás

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Dr Rebecca Tamás

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r.tamas@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Humanities, Religion & Philosophy

Biography

Job title:

Lecturer: Creative Writing

Biography:

My first pamphlet 'The Ophelia Letters' came out with Salt in 2013. My second pamphlet 'Savage' came out with Clinic Press in 2017, and was the London Review of Books Bookshop Pamphlet of the Year, and a Poetry School Online Book of the Year. My pamphlet 'Tiger' will be published by Bad Betty Press in October 2018. I won the 2016 Manchester Poetry Prize and was the Fenton Arts Trust Emerging Writer Award Winner 2017. My work has been published in journals including The London Review of Books, The White Review, Poetry London, Poetry Review and Minvera Platform; and my first poetry collection 'WITCH' was published by Penned in the Margins in 2019. My collection of essays, 'Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman,' came out with Makina Books in 2020.

Qualifications:

I completed a BA (Hons) at Warwick University in English and Creative Writing, where I gained a First, and an MA in Creative Writing at The University of Edinburgh. I completed by PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at The University of East Anglia, where I was supervised by Denise Riley and Tiffany Atkinson.

My Latest

Tamás, Rebecca (2021) 'The Breather I.'. In: Simpson, Kate, (ed.) Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency. Valley Press.
Rebecca, Tamas (2021) The Digger's Green Roots. Tribune.
Tamás, Rebecca (2020) Review of Margaret Atwood's 'Dearly.'. The i Newspaper.
Rebecca, Tamas (2021) Full Moon in Scorpio. Magma Poetry, 79.
Rebecca, Tamas (2018) Palermo. The London Review of Books, 40 (19).
Tamás, Rebecca (2019) 'Medusa in Venice.'. The London Review of Books, 41 (24).
Tamás, Rebecca (2017) The Enchantment of Disenchantment: Wallace Stevens’ ‘Sunday Morning’ & Ecopoetic Potential. Wild Court Magazine.
Tamás, Rebecca (2020) Review of Daisy Lafarge's 'Life Without Air.'. The Guardian.
Rebecca, Tamas (2020) 'Whales'. In: Maria, Sledmere and Rhian, Williams, (eds.) The Weird Folds: Everyday Poems from the Anthropocene. Dostoevsky Wannabe
Tamás, Rebecca (2020) Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman. Makina Books

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	The Songs of Hecate: Poetry and the Language of the Occult.	157	18
2	Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry	87	1
3	WITCH	67	1
4	The Emperor of Ice Cream	64	39
5	The Power of a Name	63	25
6	Savage	48	1
7	Tiger	47	3
8	Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman	42
9	Review of Daisy Lafarge's 'Life Without Air.'	39	2
10	Full Moon in Scorpio	36