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Rebecca Tamás was born in London in 1988. She studied at the University of Warwick and at the University of Edinburgh, where she won the Grierson Verse Prize. Her poems have been published in a variety of magazines and journals including Magma, Oxford Poetry and The SHOp. She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at The University of East Anglia. This is her first book of poems.The poems in the first half of The Ophelia Letters explore the interaction between self and place in ways both strange and loaded with magic: journeying to the Arctic with Werner Herzog, stopping off in Scottish islands and English wildernesses, revealing an electric language of the road that is both expansive and complex. In long title poem Tamás pours this fractured, cut-throat lyricism into the figure of Shakespeare’s Ophelia, attempting to retrieve a silenced female voice from darkness, to let the light in.
The Ophelia Letters explores the interaction between self and place, and the way the normal can become strange and freighted with magic.
- Hare Window
- Eigg
- Rùm
- Compton Abbas
- A Trip with Werner Herzog
- Vertigo City
- The Ophelia Letters
The poems of Rebecca Tamás are of profound and uplifting promise; the wrench of the emotional and hotly physical is calibrated with exquisite lyrical aplomb.