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THE WORLD AFTER RAIN
21 May, @referencepoint180 ☔️

Readings by @canisia.lubrin, @victoriaadukweibulley, So Mayer and @momtazamehri 💙

Join us for a night of poetry for the London launch of The World After Rain, a landmark work of elegy by award-winning writer and poet, Canisia Lubrin.

The World After Rain is a mesmerising elegy for the poet’s mother, interwoven across public and private entanglements. The poetry in this collection winds through an unresolvable axis of astonishment, from deep grief to its ultimately transformative expression. This is poetry of haunting gravity, with meditations on love, time and loss, at once meticulously far-seeing, interior and inexpressible.

‘How incandescent the language is, each line emitting light through the membrane of time and anticipated grief. The work has a rigorousness, the poet pushing through the ache of experience from the first to the last word.’ – Dionne Brand

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This month, dive into fiction from pioneering French feminist author Hélène Cixous, newly translated by Sophie Lewis. Angst is available for pre-order now from the link in our bio 🕳️

In Angst, the creator of écriture féminine brings a unique voice to the page as a woman obsesses over her mother’s abandonment and her lover’s rejection. Sinking through textual disruptions, dreams and the rush of language, Hélène Cixous conveys powerful anguish and catharsis. This book also features a foreword by Jamieson Webster.

We’ll be holding a launch event at Foyles Charing Cross Road on 17th March. Link in bio 🔗

Out today: MEMORY by Dorothea Lasky @dorothealasky

What constitutes personhood and consciousness? What memories get lost, and why? Dorothea Lasky’s MEMORY is a cycle of poet’s essays ranging across three dimensions of memory – ancestral, personal and poetic – to reflect on art; time, both everyday and the transcendent; charged sites of collective reminiscence, such as the moon landing; and forgetting through her father’s experience of Alzheimer’s.

Lasky broaches the edges of knowability: what’s left where memory is absent? What’s ‘real’ beyond the horizon of death? The book closes with ‘Time, the Rose, and the Moon’, an ars poetica exploring the ouroboros as a symbol for the nonlinear processes of time, memory and art. Lasky reveals memory to be huge and haunting, as she accumulates impressions that challenge the possibility of fixed meaning.

Out today: MEMORY by Dorothea Lasky @dorothealasky

What constitutes personhood and consciousness? What memories get lost, and why? Dorothea Lasky’s MEMORY is a cycle of poet’s essays ranging across three dimensions of memory – ancestral, personal and poetic – to reflect on art; time, both everyday and the transcendent; charged sites of collective reminiscence, such as the moon landing; and forgetting through her father’s experience of Alzheimer’s.

Lasky broaches the edges of knowability: what’s left where memory is absent? What’s ‘real’ beyond the horizon of death? The book closes with ‘Time, the Rose, and the Moon’, an ars poetica exploring the ouroboros as a symbol for the nonlinear processes of time, memory and art. Lasky reveals memory to be huge and haunting, as she accumulates impressions that challenge the possibility of fixed meaning.

Bodies of Sound / Cosmic Scores: Reading, writing, performing text scores

@feministduration @goldsmithscca, Sunday 7 June

What is a text score? Performed in and through individual and collective bodies, what sort of subjectivities and relations can be produced within the space of the score? What kind of bodies – sonic, cosmic, human, social – can be read, written and performed? Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Silver Press, 2024) editors @irene_revell and @Sarah_Shin_ lead this afternoon workshop focusing on the text score as a speculative feminist medium.

In the first part of the afternoon we will collectively read text scores, including a selection from Bodies of Sound by Ximena Alarcón, Elena Biserna, Maria Chavez, Tomoko Hojo, Nat Lall and Anna Raimondo. Through the lens of feminist and allied politics, Irene Revell will lead the discussion drawing on her research into historical and contemporary text scores as structures that organise bodies and hold space for both singular authorship and collaboration, and distributed forms of labour.

In the second part of the afternoon we will collectively perform a selection from Sarah Shin’s Cosmic Scores, which bring together the cosmic and the embodied through the instructional as poetry, to feel and sound inner paths to outer space. This will be followed by writing and performing new scores in small groups. Please note no prior performance or writing experience or performance is necessary.

Organised by Sabrina Fuller @sabrinasusanfuller

Tomorrow night at @burleyfisher: TRANSLATING HÉLÈNE CIXOUS AND ANGST

In this event chaired by Kristen Vida Alfaro (@krisvidaalfaro), managing director of Silver Press and Tilted Axis Press, translators Sophie Lewis (@srlewis1 ) and Beverley Bie Brahic explore feminist poetics and the work of iconic French writer Hélène Cixous.

Looking at translation as a form of écriture féminine, the conversation will move between languages, body and text to reflect on the complexities of translating Cixous’s unique approach.

20 May, 18:30. Tickets available from @burleyfisher 🎟️

THE WORLD AFTER RAIN at @referencepoint180 💙

Don’t miss Canisia Lubrin reading from her award-winning work THE WORLD AFTER RAIN at Reference Point this Thursday 21st May to celebrate the book’s London launch.

With further readings from @victoriaadukweibulley, @momtazamehri and So Mayer

Ticket link in bio 🎟️🎟️

THE WORLD AFTER RAIN at @referencepoint180 💙

Don’t miss Canisia Lubrin reading from her award-winning work THE WORLD AFTER RAIN at Reference Point this Thursday 21st May to celebrate the book’s London launch.

With further readings from @victoriaadukweibulley, @momtazamehri and So Mayer

Ticket link in bio 🎟️🎟️

TRANSLATING HÉLÈNE CIXOUS AND ANGST, 20 May @burleyfisher

Sophie Lewis @srlewis1, Beverley Bie Brahic and Kristen Vida Alfaro @krisvidaalfaro discuss translation as écriture féminine and the complexities of capturing Hélène Cixous’s unique style.

Burley Fisher Books, London
20 May 2026, 18:30
Book tickets @burleyfisher or on the door 🎟️

In this event, translator Sophie Lewis joins poet and translator Beverley Bie Brahic to explore translating Hélène Cixous, the iconic French writer and theorist, and feminist poetics in translation. Chaired by Kristen Vida Alfaro, managing director of Silver Press and director of Tilted Axis Press, which specialises in translated literature, the conversation will move between languages, body and text, and the restless force of écriture féminine.

In Angst, Cixous writes at the edge of fear and revelation, moving between autobiography, dream, nightmare and stream-of-consciousness. To translate her involves following rhythm, breath, rupture, puns and play. Considering translation as a form of écriture féminine in its own right, the panel will reflect on the complexities and intrigues of translating Cixous’s textures, wordplay and neologisms.

🥀THE WORLD AFTER RAIN by Canisia Lubrin

The winner of the poetry category of the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, The World After Rain is a landmark work of radiant elegy, through poetry of haunting gravity and resonance. Canisia Lubrin channels grief and astonishment through the paradoxes of contemporary life to reflect on love, time and loss.

Launching 21st May @referencepoint180, tickets available in our bio 🎟️

THE WORLD AFTER RAIN

Launch @referencepoint180, 21 May – 🎟️ link in bio

With readings from Canisia Lubrin, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, So Mayer and Momtaza Mehri.

Join us for a night of poetry for the London launch of The World After Rain, a landmark work of elegy by award-winning writer and poet, Canisia Lubrin.

The World After Rain is a mesmerising elegy for the poet’s mother, interwoven across public and private entanglements. The poetry in this collection winds through an unresolvable axis of astonishment, from deep grief to its ultimately transformative expression. This is poetry of haunting gravity, with meditations on love, time and loss, at once meticulously far-seeing, interior and inexpressible.

‘How incandescent the language is, each line emitting light through the membrane of time and anticipated grief. The work has a rigorousness, the poet pushing through the ache of experience from the first to the last word.’ – Dionne Brand

THE WORLD AFTER RAIN

Launch @referencepoint180, 21 May – 🎟️ link in bio

With readings from Canisia Lubrin, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, So Mayer and Momtaza Mehri.

Join us for a night of poetry for the London launch of The World After Rain, a landmark work of elegy by award-winning writer and poet, Canisia Lubrin.

The World After Rain is a mesmerising elegy for the poet’s mother, interwoven across public and private entanglements. The poetry in this collection winds through an unresolvable axis of astonishment, from deep grief to its ultimately transformative expression. This is poetry of haunting gravity, with meditations on love, time and loss, at once meticulously far-seeing, interior and inexpressible.

‘How incandescent the language is, each line emitting light through the membrane of time and anticipated grief. The work has a rigorousness, the poet pushing through the ache of experience from the first to the last word.’ – Dionne Brand

We are made of vibrations 🌀

🎐From Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros (@spiralhouseeditions) featured #InMinorKeys #biennalearte2026

What is the difference between hearing and listening? Can you listen beyond the edge of your own imagination?

In QUANTUM LISTENING, Pauline Oliveros blends technology and spirituality to set out the healing practice of Deep Listening - radical, transformative, and open to all.

🎐From Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros (@spiralhouseeditions) featured #InMinorKeys #biennalearte2026

What is the difference between hearing and listening? Can you listen beyond the edge of your own imagination?

In QUANTUM LISTENING, Pauline Oliveros blends technology and spirituality to set out the healing practice of Deep Listening - radical, transformative, and open to all.

🎐From Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros (@spiralhouseeditions) featured #InMinorKeys #biennalearte2026

What is the difference between hearing and listening? Can you listen beyond the edge of your own imagination?

In QUANTUM LISTENING, Pauline Oliveros blends technology and spirituality to set out the healing practice of Deep Listening - radical, transformative, and open to all.

🎐From Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros (@spiralhouseeditions) featured #InMinorKeys #biennalearte2026

Explore sound, consciousness and the healing practice of Deep Listening in Pauline Oliveros’ QUANTUM LISTENING, available from Spiral House.

🎐From Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros (@spiralhouseeditions) featured #InMinorKeys #biennalearte2026