Listening Glossary, edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch at @silver-press.bsky.social, gathers hundreds of terms for listening across bodies, ecologies, machines, practices, and ears. sonicfield.org/listening-gl...
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A feminist press feat. Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, & Leonora Carrington. Announcing: Spiral House! An imprint for art, poetry & ways of knowing 💫 silverpress.org Join our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/silverpress/silver-press-mailing-list
This at @burleyfisher.bsky.social looks amazing! Translation event of our dreams. You can also read our conversation with Sophie Lewis on translating Cixous and Angst here: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...
Silver Press@silver-press.bsky.social · 3mo agoTranslating Hélène Cixous and Angst Sophie Lewis, Beverley Bie Brahic and Kristen Vida Alfaro in conversation – this Wednesday @burleyfisher.bsky.social Is translation a form of écriture féminine in its own right? burleyfisherbooks.com/products/tra...
Translating Hélène Cixous and Angst Sophie Lewis, Beverley Bie Brahic and Kristen Vida Alfaro in conversation – this Wednesday @burleyfisher.bsky.social Is translation a form of écriture féminine in its own right? burleyfisherbooks.com/products/tra...
Translating Hélène Cixous and Angst: Sophie Lewis, Beverley Bie Brahic and Kristen Vida Alfaro in conversation
Wednesday 20th May 6.30pm to 9pm 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...
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Join us on 21st May for a night of poetry to celebrate the London launch of The World After Rain, a landmark work of elegy by award-winning writer and poet, Canisia Lubrin. With readings from Canisia Lubrin, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, So Mayer and Momtaza Mehri. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-world-...
THE WORLD AFTER RAIN, 21 May at Reference Point Canisia Lubrin, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, @suchmayer.bsky.social and Momtaza Mehri A mesmerising elegy winding through an unresolvable axis of astonishment, from deep grief to its transformative expression www.eventbrite.com/e/the-world-...
The World After Rain
Book Launch and Readings
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THE WORLD AFTER RAIN, 21 May at Reference Point Canisia Lubrin, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, @suchmayer.bsky.social and Momtaza Mehri A mesmerising elegy winding through an unresolvable axis of astonishment, from deep grief to its transformative expression www.eventbrite.com/e/the-world-...
The World After Rain
Book Launch and Readings
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'A bold formal experiment. . . Its paradoxes, metaphorical convulsions, its absurdity, irony and play, are exhilarating and oddly hopeful.' Joanna Kavenna reviews ANGST for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
Congratulations to Program Coordinator and Associate Professor Canisia Lubrin on winning the Poetry category of the #2026OCMBocasPrizeforCaribbeanLiterature for THE WORLD AFTER RAIN: ANNE’S POEM. We also warmly congratulate Justin Haynes and Tessa McWatt on their category wins.
![[Image description: A bold promotional graphic with a bright yellow background announcing “The OCM Bocas Prize 2026 for Caribbean Literature — Announcing the Genre Category Winners!” Logos for Bocas Lit Fest and One Caribbean Media appear at the top. Three book covers are displayed side by side: THE WORLD AFTER RAIN: ANNE’S POEM by Canisia Lubrin (Poetry), featuring a blue-toned design with rainfall imagery; IBIS by Justin Haynes (Fiction), showing a stylized pink bird against a soft gradient background; and THE SNAG: A MOTHER, A FOREST, AND WILD GRIEF by Tessa McWatt (Nonfiction), depicting a green tree illustration on a white background. Text at the bottom notes that the overall winner will be announced on May 2 during the 2026 Bocas Lit Fest.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vn4nljhzwixh6tnp4oktlg5v/bafkreiepmtgpbovfroclsjrbjcmzpav5fwvwiobh7gc5cdsln6l7nzia3m)
so excited for this to finally be on its way to me
Silver Press@silver-press.bsky.social · 5mo agoFrom Schrödinger’s cat and science-fiction portals to magic, early trans activism and comics, Trans Central Station breaks the world open to ‘both completely new and unknowably ancient’ possibilities of desire, joy and revelation. www.silverpress.org/products/tra...
(proof)reading this was a delight!
Silver Press@silver-press.bsky.social · 5mo agoFrom Schrödinger’s cat and science-fiction portals to magic, early trans activism and comics, Trans Central Station breaks the world open to ‘both completely new and unknowably ancient’ possibilities of desire, joy and revelation. www.silverpress.org/products/tra...
Thanks to everyone who came out to our sold out, packed to the rafters event on the life and work of Rachel Pollack tonight at @treadwells-books.bsky.social ! Sarah Schulman and I had such a fun time discussing Rachel with you all.
One of my favourite interviews we have ever done with @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social! Have not stopped thinking about Angst, since. Thank you @nicciprasa.bsky.social and @silver-press.bsky.social for setting this up! 📚
In Other Words@inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe spoke with Sophie Lewis about her translation of Hélène Cixous’ Angst! @silver-press.bsky.social www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...
We spoke with Sophie Lewis about her translation of Hélène Cixous’ Angst! @silver-press.bsky.social www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...
Talking with Sophie Lewis — In Other Words
Kate McNamara and Georgia Katakou talk with Sophie Lewis, translator from the French and Portuguese, about her translation of Hélène Cixous’ Angst . We discuss ‘difficult’ texts, re-translation, and translators’ notes, as well as the types of research translators engage with, the broader work of Hé
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In The World After Rain, a book-length elegy for her mother, Canisia Lubrin explores the powerful dynamic between love and loss. In this One on One panel, Canisia will be in conversation with Shivanee Ramlochan @novelniche.bsky.social #bocas2026 #alltogethernow
Cixous gets into the foundations of language... 'Experimental' just really doesn't cover it. Sophie Lewis on ANGST for the Worms podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
🧿 TRANS CENTRAL STATION by Rachel Pollack 🧿 The foundational text on language, identity and breaking open the world is coming from Spiral House on 13th April. Pre-order now: www.silverpress.org/collections/...
Sophie Lewis reads from Hélène Cixous' ANGST (Silver Press, 2026), in which a woman replays her abandonment by both her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god, and by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. buff.ly/43gboRI
Sophie Lewis reads from Hélène Cixous' ANGST (Silver Press, 2026)
A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive…
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"What would dying matter if I could have told him just once: ‘Dear friend, I cannot die unless you too will die.’ I see my death before me, and I know you will be buried in the same coffin as I." Read an excerpt from Hélène Cixous's ANGST at 3:AM Magazine: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/angst/
Angst — Hélène Cixous (tr. Sophie Lewis) @silver-press.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/03/18/a...
Angst — Hélène Cixous (tr. Sophie Lewis)
What is calling you, poor body, what lifts you, and drags you, what attracts you so late, in those nights, so far into the lands where you are never again truly at home, amid the crowd of lively cr…
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"What is calling you, poor body, what lifts you, and drags you, what attracts you so late, in those nights, so far into the lands where you are never again truly at home ..." Hélène Cixous (tr. Sophie Lewis) @silver-press.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/03/18/a...
Angst — Hélène Cixous (tr. Sophie Lewis)
What is calling you, poor body, what lifts you, and drags you, what attracts you so late, in those nights, so far into the lands where you are never again truly at home, amid the crowd of lively cr…
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Hélène Cixous’s ANGST is launching @foylesforbooks this Tuesday 17 March Join Sophie Lewis, Juliet Jacques and Emily LaBarge to explore Lewis's translation, écriture féminine and Cixous’s textual disruptions that convey an unshakeable demand for freedom www.foyles.co.uk/events/angst...
Hélène Cixous’s ANGST is launching @foylesforbooks this Tuesday 17 March Join Sophie Lewis, Juliet Jacques and Emily LaBarge to explore Lewis's translation, écriture féminine and Cixous’s textual disruptions that convey an unshakeable demand for freedom www.foyles.co.uk/events/angst...
When I wrote this a year ago I had no idea how bad things would get. Today, eight years after she left us, I'm trying to follow Ursula's advice: write and worry. Write and act. Worry and keep writing. lithub.com/the-way-of-w...
The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism
In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…
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BACK in English after 40 years! Originally published in 1985, Hélène Cixous’ ANGST has been unavailable in English for four decades. Now, in a stunning new translation by Sophie Lewis, this genre-defying work returns… Published by Silver Press on 16 March Foreword by Jamieson Webster
On Hélène Cixous's Angst By Jamieson Webster @parisreview.bsky.social 'To be is already to be abandoned, already to have lost, and still to love. To read Cixous is to tarry with this open wound, to hear how writing becomes testimony to its own possibility.' www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02...
On Angst by Jamieson Webster
February 27, 2026 – “What Lacan figures as structural alienation, Cixous writes as bodily anguish.”
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Sarah Schulman and I in public conversation for the first time in ten years! On the life and work of the brilliant Rachel Pollack — trans activist, tarot grandmaster, comic writer, sci fi queen. And at my favourite bookshop in London, @treadwells-books.bsky.social ! This is not to be missed.
Silver Press@silver-press.bsky.social · 5mo agoRachel Pollack's 'Trans Central Station', 13 April @treadwells-books.bsky.social Sarah Schulman and Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social explore the late Rachel Pollack’s essay on trans identity, myth and magic www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/rac...
Rachel Pollack's 'Trans Central Station', 13 April @treadwells-books.bsky.social Sarah Schulman and Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social explore the late Rachel Pollack’s essay on trans identity, myth and magic www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/rac...
Rachel Pollack's 'Trans Central Station' – Launch & Soirée | Treadwells
Sarah Schulman and Morgan M Page explore the late Rachel Pollack’s essay on trans identity, myth and magic. Drinks and signings follow.
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We just interviewed Sophie Lewis, who translated Angst by Hélène Cixous for @silver-press.bsky.social. It made us all the more excited to re-read Angst and see it out in the world, for a new generation of readers to discover. Can't wait to share the interview with you!
Silver Press@silver-press.bsky.social · 5mo agoOn Hélène Cixous's Angst By Jamieson Webster @parisreview.bsky.social 'To be is already to be abandoned, already to have lost, and still to love. To read Cixous is to tarry with this open wound, to hear how writing becomes testimony to its own possibility.' www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02...