A theme is emerging in my summer reading.
The work of these Indian women writers is giving me literary life ๐
Meena Kandasamy #tishanidoshi Jhumpa Lahiri #kirandesai Preti Taneja #ReadWomen
Don't miss #TishaniDoshi read from her latest Bloodaxe Books collection, A God at the Door, and discuss her Forward Prizes-shortlisted work with poet and researcher John Challis tomorrow eve @ 6pm BST. Part of GemArts #MasalaFestival . Sign up here: bit.ly/3zfQ7U6
Coming up on #bbcculturalfrontline BBC World Service: JaQuel Knight choreographer to BEYONCร & Megan TINA SNOW, poet #TishaniDoshi Bloodaxe Books, #QuangDang & #MarionMotin on dance power w Nawal Al-maghafi ููุงู ุงูู ูุญูู & prods Paul Waters, Blackwatertown: paperback/ebook/audio Kirsty Louise McQuire & Lucy Collingwood bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cโฆ
Looking ahead to this year's Hay Festival here are my personal highlights from previous festivals and partner events - visits to Hay Festival Segovia, Cartagena, SILK-festival in Norway, and with the lovely #TishaniDoshi at the main festival. Can't wait to do it all again.
Congrats!
#JayBernard
Jane Clarke
Laura Cumming
#TishaniDoshi
@FictionAtelier
Luan Goldie
Adam Higginbotham
#KathleenJamie
Robert Macfarlane
#TimMackintoshSmith
#PhilipMarsden
#RobertMinhinnick
#AnitaMir
Max Porter
Roger Robinson
Elif Shafak
@anna_charlbury
jv
Happy #NaPoWriMo , here are some of my fav poets: #TishaniDoshi (Bloodaxe Books), #SusanHowe (@NewDirections), #SarahHowe (@ChattoBooks), #NatashaTrethewey ( #marinerbooks ). Read & support them all! #poetrycommunity #UKpoets #USpoets #LiteraturePosts #poetrylovers
HERE received a Certificate of Typographic Excellence from Type Directors Club #TDC68 ! Our type specimen for Typotheque advocates global unity and communication through tishani doshiโs poem and through the work of 175 translators here on Twitter. A great reward for all who helped๐
For #ReadingHour on #WorldBookNight
Hereโs 8 of my favourite poetry collections & #DesertIslandBooks inc #MaryOliver #TracyKSmith
#TishaniDoshi The Typo King FRSL / FRSA #ClaudiaRankine The Typo King FRSL / FRSA Danez Roger Robinson
#OceanVuong
Still buzzing from this! Huge thank you to ๐๐จ๐ง๐ง๐, ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ for commissioning, and ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐จ & Rebeca Omordia for the stunning performance of #GirlsAreComingOutOfTheWoods . Special thanks to to tishani doshi for allowing me to set her powerful poem
What's next for MeToo? Informed observations from Ireland, India, Shanghai, UK & US -- all on one panel
Dalkey Book Festival. Terrific discussion w/ Aoife McLysaght Lenora Chu Emma Dabiri & #TishaniDoshi led by
Jennifer O'Connell. #Ireland #culture #DBF10 Global Irish โ
Congratulations Bad Lilies. A superb #1. Working my way through gorgeous new poems Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe A.B. Jackson #TishaniDoshi , #MauriceRiordan & Dr Sarah Corbett -
'Iโve broken three mirrors in this house.
The first, a slim dress mirror that wouldnโt fit anywhere'
From 'Mirror' ๐
It's #PoetryDayIRL ! ๐ In Dublin city today? Stop by the @poetryjukebox #Quotidian๐ located just outside our museum, and listen to the curation 'The Revolution is in the Heart', which includes translated works by international imprisoned writers. epicchq.com/poetry-jukeboxโฆ
The Incredible #TishaniDoshi reading from one of my favourite books of the year 'A God at the Door' Bloodaxe Books. Global majority poets and familia- let's support.
Got myself a copy of the real thing #Latch
Huge thanks to Deryn Rees-Jones & #TishaniDoshi for their words.
Thank you @carcanet !
Preorder here: carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexeโฆ
Day 4 #MasalaFestival ๐ฆand we have #TishaniDoshi read from her latest Bloodaxe Books collection, A God at the Door, and discuss her Forward Prizes-shortlisted work with poet and researcher John Challis 6pm BST. Sign up here: bit.ly/3zfQ7U6 NCLA #acesupported ๐
Girls are coming out of the woods...theyโre coming...theyโre coming - #TishaniDoshi reads her #pbsrecommendarion #dance #india #feminism
Incredible evening Royal Albert Hall last night - ๐๐จ๐ง๐ง๐, ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ feat world premieres of music by women composers Ella Jarman-Pinto (she/her) Kristina Arakelyan Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres w/ Her Ensemble ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐จ. Also saw the premiere of ยซย Ascensioย ยป by Julie Cooper Music performed beautifully by Rebeca Omordia
YES! Thank you EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum - lovely collaboration with Irish PEN Lia Mills Neil Hegarty Liz McManus CatherineDunneAuthor @Considine_June Padraig Hanratty John O'Donnell Caroline Stockford Kate Ennals Cathal Poirteir
Iggy McGovern @TishaniDoshi Stephen James Smith Paula Meehan, Theo Dorgan
Top ten reads of 2019!
Featuring books by Tara Westover
, Fatima Farheen Mirza, anita nair , tishani doshi , Tayari Jones , Oyinkan Braithwaite, Trevor Noah , Sadia Abbas, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf.
So wonderful to hear #TishaniDoshi read from her new collection #AGodattheDoor and talk about her writing in conversation with Jessica Traynor thank you Cรบirt Festival the beautifully repeated 'i found a village' ringing in my ears.
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Top 10 Love Poems
#poetry #love #ValentinesDay #SylviaPlath #JerichoBrown #TishaniDoshi #IlyaKaminsky #AnnaAkhmatova #SandraCisneros #KamalaDas #AllurNanmullaiya #RainerMariaRilke #DerekWalcott
theguardian.com/books/2023/febโฆ
Girls are coming out of the woods.
They're coming. They're coming.
#repealthe8th #Together4Yes #tishanidoshi #girlsarecomingoutofthewoods
Weโre proud to announce the 2020 #RSLOndaatje Prize Longlist. The ยฃ10,000 Prize is awarded annually to a book โ fiction, non-fiction or poetry โ which best evokes the spirit of a place. In these times of isolation, their works are more important than ever:
rsliterature.org/award/rsl-ondaโฆ
This was such a delicious treat! Thank you Jenna Clake @dominicbury #TishaniDoshi Bloodaxe Books ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ