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Bára Hladík’s New Infinity is a glittering cross-genre debut. Weaving surrealist stories with meditative poetics, Hladík invites us into a dream world of degenerative illness, left disordered by the failures of ableism, medical professionals, and late-stage capitalism. Here, everything runs on sick time. Where physical health and financial resources grow scarce, the restorative possibilities of queer love, divination, and self-reclamation grant a defiant, yet often tenuous, abundance.
Seep into the trippy, healing waters of ‘the half-drowned’ and fall in love with this groundbreaking speculative fiction debut about the ones that are left behind on a ravaged and toxic earth after the rich and powerful use and benefit from all the resources and escape earth to live in its orbit. A fascinating book about love, relations, traditions and nature in all its ferocity.
At 248 pages, Kim: A Novel Idea by @fkafrancesca is our largest publication yet!
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Kim: A Novel Idea is a graphic literary novel about a lonely millennial named Frankie, her boyfriend Jacob, their talking cat Catman, and an unhealthy obsession with Kim Kardashian. Faced with the difficulties of her life, scrolling through photos of an uber-celebrity and talking to her cat is the only way Frankie knows how to cope—through fantasy and escape.
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Read this if you’re interested in: cats, celebrity culture, fourth wave feminism
Fariha Roísín
Join writer Fariha Roísín this week for our second episode of Metacösm.
Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, and queer identities and has appeared in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/style/self-care/how-the-deprivation-of-ramadan-helps-care-for-the-spirit.html), Al Jazeera (http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/1/charlie-hebdo-islamophobiapressfreedomhatespeech.html), The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/18/when-it-comes-to-a-family-trauma-who-gets-to-tell-the-story), Vice (https://www.vice.com/en/article/nejjmw/living-with-my-mothers-mental-illness), Village Voice (https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/05/23/sylvia-chang-makes-the-heart-go-boom/), and others.
She is currently the co-founder and director of Studio Ānanda (https://studioananda.space/), a space of cultivation and archive for radical, anti-colonial wellness; deputy editor of Violet Book (https://www.violet-book.com/), and sits on the Board of Directors at Find Center (https://www.findcenter.com/). She also teaches a quarterly class called Writing with Vulnerability (https://fariharoisin.substack.com/p/announcement-numero-5-class-on-writing?utm_source=url) and writes a weekly newsletter (https://fariharoisin.substack.com/p/facing-your-identity).
Róisín has published a book of poetry entitled How To Cure A Ghost (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781419737565) (Abrams, 2019), a journal called Being In Your Body (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781419738289) (Abrams, 2019) and a novel named Like A Bird (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781951213091) (Unnamed Press, 2020).
Her first work of non-fiction is forthcoming and entitl
Fariha Roísín
Join writer Fariha Roísín this week for our second episode of Metacösm.
Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, and queer identities and has appeared in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/style/self-care/how-the-deprivation-of-ramadan-helps-care-for-the-spirit.html), Al Jazeera (http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/1/charlie-hebdo-islamophobiapressfreedomhatespeech.html), The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/18/when-it-comes-to-a-family-trauma-who-gets-to-tell-the-story), Vice (https://www.vice.com/en/article/nejjmw/living-with-my-mothers-mental-illness), Village Voice (https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/05/23/sylvia-chang-makes-the-heart-go-boom/), and others.
She is currently the co-founder and director of Studio Ānanda (https://studioananda.space/), a space of cultivation and archive for radical, anti-colonial wellness; deputy editor of Violet Book (https://www.violet-book.com/), and sits on the Board of Directors at Find Center (https://www.findcenter.com/). She also teaches a quarterly class called Writing with Vulnerability (https://fariharoisin.substack.com/p/announcement-numero-5-class-on-writing?utm_source=url) and writes a weekly newsletter (https://fariharoisin.substack.com/p/facing-your-identity).
Róisín has published a book of poetry entitled How To Cure A Ghost (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781419737565) (Abrams, 2019), a journal called Being In Your Body (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781419738289) (Abrams, 2019) and a novel named Like A Bird (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781951213091) (Unnamed Press, 2020).
Her first work of non-fiction is forthcoming and entitl
Fariha Roísín
Join writer Fariha Roísín this week for our second episode of Metacösm.
Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, and queer identities and has appeared in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/style/self-care/how-the-deprivation-of-ramadan-helps-care-for-the-spirit.html), Al Jazeera (http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/1/charlie-hebdo-islamophobiapressfreedomhatespeech.html), The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/18/when-it-comes-to-a-family-trauma-who-gets-to-tell-the-story), Vice (https://www.vice.com/en/article/nejjmw/living-with-my-mothers-mental-illness), Village Voice (https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/05/23/sylvia-chang-makes-the-heart-go-boom/), and others.
She is currently the co-founder and director of Studio Ānanda (https://studioananda.space/), a space of cultivation and archive for radical, anti-colonial wellness; deputy editor of Violet Book (https://www.violet-book.com/), and sits on the Board of Directors at Find Center (https://www.findcenter.com/). She also teaches a quarterly class called Writing with Vulnerability (https://fariharoisin.substack.com/p/announcement-numero-5-class-on-writing?utm_source=url) and writes a weekly newsletter (https://fariharoisin.substack.com/p/facing-your-identity).
Róisín has published a book of poetry entitled How To Cure A Ghost (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781419737565) (Abrams, 2019), a journal called Being In Your Body (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781419738289) (Abrams, 2019) and a novel named Like A Bird (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781951213091) (Unnamed Press, 2020).
Her first work of non-fiction is forthcoming and entitl
ANTHEIA | Today I am Reborn
ANTHEIA @thewatertales is an artist and writer of Italian and Chinese descent. Her artworks revolve around breaking down barriers by proposing the raw, beautiful and often dissonant realities through uncovering the truths of human mind. Through her art and spoken word, she seeks to reveal the mindful, healing, ever-present and compassionate natural essence within all of us. Her art seeks to reveal an open space of acceptance and deep presence for oneself. By creating these introspective spaces, the beginning to collective healing is introduced. How can we rediscover new ways of tender co-existence within ourselves and all those around us? She deeply believes that healing the world begins with healing oneself first.
Kim Roger Abi Zeid Daou @immiki_ is a storyteller, artist, and PhD candidate at McGill University. At the heart of her stories is an exploration of perceptual biases, neuroscience, and the dynamic and poetic ways in which we create and conceptualize narratives and experiences.
For more information, please visit her website www.beirutarchivist.wordpress.com
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“‘self-portrait of me in a floral sundress’ is a culmination of my narrative autoethnography where I documented my sensual interaction with the world, specifically olfactory resonance and auditory perception, and the states of being and becoming and streams of consciousness they evoked.
I investigated the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation via a phenomenological creative process.
Priming is time travel. Memory is the conduit.”
Brad Casey | Live @ Anteism
Ashley Obscura | Live @ Anteism
Laura Mota | Live @ Anteism
Metatron Presents: Bridging Our Divide
In Translation: Bridging Our Divide is a bilingual reading and conversation that brings together three Montreal-based authors from francophone and anglophone writing scenes to read from and engage in a dialogue about their work and experiences in and with translation.
It might be said that anglophone and francophone writing communities in Quebec experience multiple solitudes. Cultural, linguistic, and geographic solitudes but also, often, mutually exclusive ones. How do local emerging writers, both English- and French-speaking, feel about these solitudes? How do we feel about each other’s drastically different accesses to community, media, markets? And what can we learn from our contrasting contexts and struggles? How can we work together to better reach new audiences, to share our access with one another? What has the Internet done—what can it do—about that? If we meet in translation, in solidarity, can we bridge our divide?
In celebration of the publication of the French translation of Marcela Huerta's Tropico, Marcela engages these questions and more with the book’s translator, Daphné B., and Alex Manley, who recently translated Daphné’s award-winning Maquillée for Coach House Books—Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism. Together, they share readings from these published works and works in progress and discuss the joys of and their experiences with translation.
Poetry in the Age of Surveillance
Metatron x The 4 Poets Livestream : The 'Hello Future' Edition (Part II)
Metatron x The 4 Poets Livestream : The 'Hello Future' Edition (Part I)
Unveiling Metatron's New Fall Catalogue!
