Minor Literature[s]

About Minor Literature[s]

The aural wing of everyone's favourite literary mag. Books, current events, culture, music, and so on.

Publisher

Minor Literatures

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Apr 2020

Latest episode

11 Mar 2021

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Mar 2021

   Trauma: Writing About Art and Mental Health

   Fernando Sdrigotti in conversation with Thom Cuell, Tamim Sadikali, Naomi Frisby and James Miller, about their experiences writing about trauma. The essays in this collection — edited by Sam Mills and Thom Cuell, published by Dodo Ink (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/1853/9780993575877) — range from the personal to the political, from the raw to the reflective, exploring topics such as grief, insomnia, anxiety, schizophrenia, meditation, abusive relationships, work, and the relationship between madness and creativity. Other contributors include: Neil Griffiths, Kirsty Logan, Tomoe Hill, Sophie Mackintosh, Rhiannon L. Cosslett, Monique Roffey, Alex Pheby, Marina Benjamin, Juliet Jacques, and the film-maker David Lynch, among others.

2. 

   15 Feb 2021

   Cordonnery: An Excerpt from Novella — Tobias Ryan

   Inspired by the works of Léon Spilliaert, Novella feeds on the Belgian symbolist’s atmospheric evocations of bleak and brooding horizons, shadowy buildings and solitary figures. A story of dislocation, doubling and disappearance, it is available now at: https://tobiasryan.substack.com/ (https://tobiasryan.substack.com/) —— Originally from Wrexham, Tobias Ryan has been living in Paris, for the last eight years where he works as an English teacher and translator. He’s had stories published online by Open Pen and STORGY. Twitter: @TobiasvRyan

3. 

   11 Feb 2021

   On Poetry: Joseph Delgado

   Joseph Delgado’s poetry offers writing that doesn’t attempt to tame or domesticate the wildness of the human heart. His land is vast and populated with junkies, prostitutes, and dear old aunts who can teach you to skin a rabbit or kill a man. The smell of oil, grease, tobacco, and sex are not just piped in for the tourists. While invoking nature, Delgado doesn’t rely on tired metaphors for the natural world. You get a sense that nature for him is always more than mere location where human action unfolds. Just the same, the landscape provides a framework and system of values in which human actions, from sex and murder to eating tortillas and driving cattle, can start to make sense. This conversation was recorded in late 2020, by Frank Garrett (https://twitter.com/limmoraliste). __ Joseph Delgado was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work has appeared in The Santa Fe Literary Review and Trajectory as well as in the anthology Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality published by Sibling Rivalry Press. San Francisco-based independent queer Chicanx Kórima Press published his first collection Ditch Water: Poems in 2013. Broken Mesas, also by Kórima Press, is forthcoming. He currently resides on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Mohave Valley, Arizona.

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