__NOTOC__ Rebecca Tamás is a British poet, writer, critic and editor, the daughter of Hungarian philosopher and public intellectual

Gáspár Miklós Tamás Gáspár Miklós Tamás (''G. M. Tamás''; hu, Tamás Gáspár Miklós; born 28 November 1948), often referred to in the media as TGM, is a Hungarian marxist-anarcho-syndicalist philosopher and public intellectual. He is currently a contribut ...

. She was born in London in 1988. She studied creative writing at the

University of Warwick , mottoeng = Mind moves matter , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £7.0 million (2021) , budget = £698.2 million (2020� ...

and at the

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, where she won the Grierson Verse Prize, before completing a PhD at the

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''.'' She is a lecturer in creative writing at

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where she co-convenes The York Centre for Writing Poetry Series. She is the editor, with Sarah Shin, of the anthology ''Spells: 21st-century Occult Poetry'' (Ignota Press, 2018). She has published three pamphlets of poetry: ''The Ophelia Letters (''Salt, 2013), ''Savage'' (Clinic, 2017) and ''Tiger'' (Bad Betty Press, 2018), and the full-length poetry collection ''Witch'' (Penned in the Margins, 2019). In 2020 she published the prose collection ''Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman.'' The composer

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has set eight poems from WITCH to music: the first complete performance of ''Spell Book'' took place at Milton Court in London on February 1, 2024. Freya-Cohen's opera WITCH, with libretto by Ruth Mariner, was inspired by the Rebecca Tamás collection of the same name. It was staged at the Royal Academy of Music in 2022.

Works

Poetry

* ''The Ophelia Letters'' (

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, 2013) * ''Savage'' (Clinic, 2017) * ''Tiger'' (Bad Betty Press, 2018) * ''WITCH'' (Penned in the Margins, 2019)

Essay

* ''Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman'' (Makina Books, 2020)

Awards

* 2016: Manchester Poetry Prize * 2017: Fenton Arts Trust Emerging Writer Award * 2017: ''London Review of Books'' Bookshop Pamphlet of the Year

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tamas, Rebecca Living people 1988 births Writers from London 20th-century British poets 21st-century British poets 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British women writers Alumni of the University of Warwick Alumni of the University of Edinburgh People associated with York St John University British women essayists Alumni of the University of East Anglia