New Suns: Magic, myth-making, occult poetry and 21st century feminism

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