This week, Tom Overton talks to Sarah Shin (co-founder of Ignota Books) and So Mayer (author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema and other books) about new currents in feminist poetry and politics that use magic and myth-making as tools to reconsider the world, and create new narratives that might improve it. The show also includes readings from Jen Calleja, Lucy Mercer and Jane Yeh, all of whom feature in Ignota's debut publication 'Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry' - which will be on sale at the New Suns feminist festival at the Barbican on Saturday 3 November.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Ignota Books - https://ignota.org/

New Suns festival - https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/new-suns-a-feminist-literary-festival

Feminist Library crowdfunder - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/help-the-feminist-library-build-its-new-home

WALTER BENJAMIN, The Arcades Project

John Berger

Nicole Bettencourt Coelho

Tarana Burke (#MeToo)

OCTAVIA BUTLER - Parable of the Talents (1988) - https://io9.gizmodo.com/archives-reveal-what-octavia-butlers-next-books-would-h-1590584994

JEN CALLEJA – Serious Justice (2016) - https://testcentre.org.uk/product/serious-justice/

FEDERICO CAMPAGNA, Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality (2018) - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/

CA Conrad

SARAH FAITH GOTTESDIENER, Many Moons - https://visualmagic.info/many-moons-workbooks-archive/

ROXANE GAY (ed.), Not That Bad (2018) - https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/not-that-bad/

DONNA HARAWAY, Staying with the Trouble (2016) - http://thechart.me/book-review-donna-haraway-staying-with-the-trouble/

Hildegard von Bingen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen

Zora Neale Hurston

Bhanu Kapil - http://clinicpresents.tictail.com/product/threads

LAO TZU - Tao Te Ching - https://www.shambhala.com/lao-tzu-tao-te-ching-896.html

Ursula K. Le Guin - https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6253/ursula-k-le-guin-the-art-of-fiction-no-221-ursula-k-le-guin

Huw Lemmey

AUDRE LORDE, ‘Poetry is a Luxury’ - https://www.silverpress.org/your-silence-will-not-protect-you/

Terence McKenna - https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/pam38b/terence-mckenna-zuvuya-dream-matrix-telemetry-interview

Lucy Mercer - http://www.thewhitereview.org/contributor_bio/lucy-mercer/

Nisha Ramayya

Sabrina Scott - https://www.witchbody.com/

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline (1623)

Victoria Sin - http://victoriasin.co.uk/

Sriwhana Spong – a hook but no fish (exhibition) - https://pumphousegallery.org.uk/programme/a-hook-but-no-fish

REBECCA TAMÁS – Savage - https://poetryschool.com/reviews/review-savage-rebecca-tamas/

Simone Weil

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (dir. Arwen Curry, 2018) - https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/new-suns-worlds-of-ursula-k-le-guin-pg-screentalk

JANE YEH, The Ninjas (2012) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/23/the-ninjas-jane-yeh-poetry-review