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[Digital Poetics 4.1] Two Poems by Shani Cadwallender
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[Digital Poetics 4.1] Two Poems by Shani Cadwallender

These poems, paying notice to un-idyllic trees in urban landscapes, probe at the uneasy but productive identifications between humans and nature made possible by language. The first, about a poplar on Peckham Rye, reinscribes the site of Blake’s vision of Ezekiel in an examination of literary legacy; the second explores perception and the trouble with anthropocentric metaphor through an observation of leaves that linger around streetlights.

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Digital Poetics 3.15 The Remedy is Resistance: On Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi’s ‘Psychoanalysis Under Occupation’ by Jeanine Hourani
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Digital Poetics 3.15 The Remedy is Resistance: On Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi’s ‘Psychoanalysis Under Occupation’ by Jeanine Hourani

In this review, Jeanine Hourani highlights the importance of centering the socio-political, historical and material realities of mental health in Palestine. Honouring the book’s methodological and theoretical approaches, Jeanine amplifies the voices of Palestinian mental health workers and uses a Fanonian, anti-colonial lens to illustrate the revolutionary and liberatory potential of psychoanalysis.

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