Occasionally #2

Occasionally is an anglophone reading series organized by Matthew Rana and hosted by Rönnells Antikvariat. Readings will take place on four occasions this spring: 27/2; 14/3;  10/4; and 8/5.

Maria Sledmere is a Glasgow-based poet and academic whose work explores energy, ecology, sleep deprivation, gender and the digital age. She is lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde and her latest book, an experimental monograph titled Midsummer Song (Hypercritique), was published by No University/Tenement Press in 2024. Other publications include Cinders (Krupskaya, 2024), An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun (Hem Press, 2023) and Visions & Feed (HVTN Press, 2022). Maria is director of post-internet publisher SPAM Press and one half of the performance duo Project Somnolence. Her next book is a collection of Celtic sci-fi poems co-written with Ian Macartney, forthcoming in spring 2025.

Amy De’Ath teaches contemporary literature, culture, and theory at King’s College London, but she’s about to move to Boston, US, to begin a new job at Tufts University. Her forthcoming critical book, Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction (Stanford UP) proposes a new way of reading poetry based on Marx’s critique of value. She is the author of several short poetry books, including Lower Parallel (Barque Press, London), and ON MY LOVE FOR gender abolition (Capricious, NY), and with Fred Wah, editor of a poetics anthology, Toward. Some. Air. (Banff Centre Press). Not a Force of Nature (Futurepoem, 2024) is her first full-length collection.

I samarbete med Matthew Rana, Rönnells Vänner, Kulturrådet, Stockholms stad och Humlegården Fastigheter.