'Critical theory is not, for Butler, a matter of taking things apart, but it is a matter of taking time.' I spent some time with Judith Butler. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

I'm producing two events at Ledbury this year for Poetry Translation Centre 🌈 I'm super excited about the queer Latinx showcase on Friday 29th June ft. the lovely Leo Boix, Diana Bellessi and more. Then on Sat 30th there's a translation workshop open to all with Leo and Jon Russell Herring 🌟

📚 just in: page proofs of a forthcoming book chapter on ‘broken gifts’ in May Sinclair, and modernist women’s writing, more broadly. Glad to see this chapter, that I wrote during the pandemic, slowly being released into the world!

On May 7, I'll be reading here with friends and fellow writers to raise funds for We Are Not Numbers, a youth-led nonprofit in Gaza that shares Palestinian stories. Join us. For tickets: eventbrite.com/e/freedom-to-w…

Only one place remaining on this! It’s online, and trust us, it’s led by one of the best in the business!

This looks fantastic! Sign up folks!

Tonight We Die as a Family

Mohammed El-Kurd’s poem, first published in the current issue of The Poetry Society’s magazine The Poetry Review has been striking a chord with thousands of readers over the world.

NOW LIVE! The wonderful Will Harris and I have guest programmed part of Ledbury Poetry Festival. Check it out!!

Today's the Day! Welcome to Ledbury Poetry Festival 2024! Prize-winning poets, discussion and debate, international voices and workshops. Round off your day with poetry slams and performance. Live and online, everyone is welcome! Explore the programme: ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on/

As part of our latest collaboration with Georgia Review a review by Ledbury Critic Esther Kondo Heller

thegeorgiareview.com/posts/on-blues…

I am delighted to be teaching this course Irish Writers Centre. Looking forward to meeting the writers. Please sign up. Intersectional Humanities
University College Dublin Poetry Ireland
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/the-ar…

Newcastle artists ❤️ #Gaza #Palestine
On now High Bridge Works: Crowdfunder Art Exhibition, Family Open Day TODAY: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ncamap
11 May: Music Fundraiser Star & Shadow Cinema cinema
starandshadow.org.uk/programme/even…
23 May: 4 Palestinian creatives w/us, Free:
ncl.ac.uk/ncla/events/ev…

This weekend marks the launch of a project years in the making: Eccentric Circles is a podcast about cities and weirdos & how both feed off each other. Presented by yours truly. Our first episode is now live, would be v chuffed if you gave it a listen:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ecc…

🌹Look at what spring has to offer🌹

An Evening with Eliza Clark (mostly offline) : Online ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-the-… & in-person ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-the-…

Pavilion Launch Helen Calcutt , Hannah Copley, Janette Ayachi : ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-the-…

Allot/Poetry Society Don Mee Choi: thetungauditorium.com/events/allott-…

'There is a ringing sense that “what isn’t hard to see / in a world that doesn’t” is not only the ignored brutality that Palestinians have endured across decades, but also the tremendous potential power of love.' Rosalie Moffett reviews “[…]” by Fady Joudah. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-pale…

‘An “authentic” experience of diaspora is a contradiction in terms: it’s up to you to make it up as you go along, but everybody’s watching.’
—Stephanie Sy-Quia on recent collections by momtaza mehri 💆🏾‍♀️ and Solmaz Sharif exploring migration and loss.
Buy the issue: poetrylondon.co.uk/shop/spring-20…

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!
In celebration, listen for FREE to Stephanie Sy-Quia and Sarala Estruch discuss Family Histories on #ledburypoetryplayer : ledburypoetry.org.uk/podcast/09-fam…
ACE Midlands Ledbury Poetry Critics Stephanie Sy-Quia Sarala Estruch #InternationalWomensDay

Words from Bhanu Kapil on […]
“I asked the petals, but the petals were between yes and no”

I wrote about the obscene in The Zone of Interest, a film that’s both rigorously structured and permanently on the verge of collapse, for Los Angeles Review of Books

lareviewofbooks.org/article/viewin…

book arrival: this vital new collection from Fady Joudah, published by Out-Spoken Press