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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 🎟️🎟️🎟️ link in bio

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.

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

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

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

🎐From Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros (@spiralhouseeditions ) featured #InMinorKeys #biennalearte2026 In this manifesto for listening as activism, Pauline Oliveros presents Deep Listening as the basis for a radically transformed social matrix, with compassion and peace at its foundation 🧿

Angst by Hélène Cixous: Sophie Lewis and Jamieson Webster in conversation Online @freudmuseum , 30 April, 6-7.30pm GMT Beyond Freud’s angst, what is angst in Cixous’s hands? Join translator Sophie Lewis and acclaimed psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster to celebrate Silver Press’s publication of Angst by Hélène Cixous in a new translation by Sophie Lewis. They will read from the book and discuss the theme and state of angst in Cixous’ book alongside the psychoanalytic understanding of angst, from Freud’s conceptualisation and usage to alternative psychoanalytical lenses. 🖼️: Leonora Carrington, Down Below (1940), in the Freud Museum’s current exhibition ‘Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal’

Join us for the book launch of “Palestine is everywhere”, TBA21's contributor-led anthology of testimony, poetry, essays, and artworks from Gaza and beyond, co-published with Silver Press. The volume gathers contributions by writers, thinkers, artists, and poets to map the global resonance and actuality of the Palestinian struggle for liberation. 📢 Presentation of the publication “Palestine is everywhere” 🗓️ Thursday May 7, 3 - 4:30pm 📍 Ocean Space, Venice – We will be joined by plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who has been operating on the frontlines in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in 2023, and now in Beirut; artist and Eartshot founder Lawrence Abu Hamdan, whose sonic investigations confront corporate, state, and environmental injustice through forensic analysis of sound; and “Palestine is everywhere” book editor Skye Arundhati Thomas. Together, they ask: How to bear witness to genocidal warfare when truth itself is under attack? How can that witnessing become a form of resistance? . Ti aspettiamo per la presentazione del libro “Palestine is everywhere”, un’antologia di TBA21 che raccoglie testimonianze, poesie, saggi e opere d’arte provenienti da Gaza e oltre, pubblicata in collaborazione con Silver Press. Il volume raccoglie contributi di scrittori/trici, pensatori/trici, artisti/e e poeti/esse per tracciare la risonanza globale e l’attualità della lotta palestinese per la liberazione. 📢 Presentazione della pubblicazione “Palestine is everywhere” 🗓️ Giovedì 7 maggio, 15:00 - 16:30 📍 Ocean Space, Venezia Alla presentazione parteciperanno il chirurgo plastico e ricostruttivo Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, che opera in prima linea a Gaza dall’inizio del genocidio nel 2023 e ora a Beirut; l’artista e fondatore di Eartshot Lawrence Abu Hamdan, le cui indagini sonore affrontano l’ingiustizia aziendale, statale e ambientale attraverso l’analisi forense del suono; e la curatrice del libro “Palestine is everywhere” Skye Arundhati Thomas. Insieme si chiederanno: come testimoniare una guerra genocida quando la verità stessa è sotto attacco? E come può questa testimonianza diventare una forma di resistenza?