Rebecca Tamás | |
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Born | 1988 London, England |
Occupation | Poet, writer, critic, editor |
Alma mater | University of Warwick and University of Edinburgh and University of East Anglia |
Genre | Poetry, essays |
Relatives | Gáspár Miklós Tamás (father) |
Rebecca Tamás is a British poet, writer, critic and editor, the daughter of Hungarian philosopher and public intellectual Gáspár Miklós Tamás. She was born in London in 1988. [1] She studied creative writing at the University of Warwick and at the University of Edinburgh, where she won the Grierson Verse Prize, [2] before completing a PhD at the University of East Anglia. [1] She is a lecturer in creative writing at York St John University where she co-convenes The York Centre for Writing Poetry Series. [3]
She is the editor, with Sarah Shin, of the anthology Spells: 21st-century Occult Poetry (Ignota Press, 2018). She has published three pamphlets of poetry: The Ophelia Letters (Salt, 2013), Savage (Clinic, 2017) and Tiger (Bad Betty Press, 2018), and the full-length poetry collection Witch (Penned in the Margins, 2019). In 2020 she published the prose collection Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman. [4]
The composer Freya Waley-Cohen has set eight poems from WITCH to music: the first complete performance of Spell Book took place at Milton Court in London on February 1, 2024. [5] Freya-Cohen's opera WITCH, with libretto by Ruth Mariner, was inspired by the Rebecca Tamás collection of the same name. It was staged at the Royal Academy of Music in 2022. [6]