Hackney Studios

by Jenny Lewis

Hackney Studios

112 pages, Hardcover

Published April 6, 2017

About the author

Jenny Lewis is an Anglo-Welsh poet, playwright, songwriter, children’s author and translator who teaches poetry at Oxford University. She trained as a painter at the Ruskin School of Art before reading English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She has worked as an advertising copywriter and a government press officer for, among others, the Equality and Human Rights Commission. She has also written children’s books and plays and co-written, with its creator, Kate Canning, a twenty-six-part children’s TV animation series, James the Cat. Her first poetry sequence, When I Became an Amazon (Iron Press, 1996) was broadcast on BBC Woman’s Hour, translated into Russian (Bilingua, 2002) and made into an opera with music by Gennadyi Shizoglazov which had its world premiere with the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Company in Perm, Russia, November 2017. Since 2012, Jenny has been working with the Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh on an award-winning Arts Council-funded project, ‘Writing Mesopotamia’, which aims to build bridges and foster friendships between English and Arabic-speaking communities. Her work for the theatre includes Map of Stars (2002), Garden of the Senses (2005), After Gilgamesh (2011) and, with Yasmin Sidhwa and Adnan al-Sayegh, Stories for Survival: a Re-telling of the 1001, Arabian Nights (2015). She has published two collections with Oxford Poets/Carcanet, Fathom (2007) and Taking Mesopotamia (2014). Jenny is currently completing a PhD on Gilgamesh at Goldsmiths.

Reviews

[Kitty · Rating 4 out of 5]

peale sissejuhatuse ja paari tsitaadi modellidelt siin juttu suuremat pole, ainult fotod - ühe linnaosa kunstnikud oma stuudiotes/ateljeedes poseerimas. mulle meeldis see kontseptsioon, et alguses pildistas fotograaf ühte loomeinimest, see soovitas järgmist ja nii hargnes sealt kogu see raamatutäis. esimestel lehekülgedel on see viitamiste ahel kenasti üles ka joonistatud. ehk siis kõik on sõbrad või naabrid või uidu teavad üksteist, sest sama kandi ja sama ala rahvas.

ootamatult ilusad olid need pildid, valguse mõttes ja nii. kenad inimesed ka muidugi. ja põhiosas kohutavalt sassis stuudiod. igasuguseid imelikke asju ikka inimesed... loovad.