12.11.2019 - ‘Blood Summit’ by Robert Pimm « Counter-terrorism expert Helen Gale has one job: to protect world leaders at a summit in the Berlin Reichstag. But terrorists take hostage presidents, prime ministers, one hundred innocent children...
12.11.2019 - ‘Middle England’ (2018) by Jonathan Coe Maria, Sandra and Andrew discuss the novel. « Beginning in 2010, on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way...
12.11.2019 - ‘Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’ (2017) by Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day, and buys the same two bottles of vodka to...
07.05.2019 - In this episode of FEM*POEM Romina Achatz is in conversation with Denice Bourbon-about her latest book- publication, the PCCC* Politically Correct Comedy Club and her activism. Denice Bourbon is a writer, queer- feminist activist, singer,...
12.03.2019 - „Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other – outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the...
11.12.2018 - Cli-Fi, Cyberpunk, Afrofuturism, New Weird, … so many worlds, so much SciFi. Superscience Me was at the conference « Worlding SF: Building, Inhabiting, and Understanding Science Fiction Universes » in Graz and has come home with a lot of...
28.05.2018 - Texts read and Music played: Wordsworth: Sonnet on Andreas Hofer (‘Of mortal parents is the Hero born…?’) Andreas-Hofer-Marsch, Gustav Mahr Mary Shelley: after visiting Hofer’s Sandhof (1842) Reschensee: Debussy –...
28.09.2017 - Charles Baudelaire, 150 Years On Playlist: English Translation texts read and French originals heard, with music inserted 1. Baudelaire: ‘Invitation to a Journey’ 2. Baudelaire: ‘L’Invitation au Voyage’ 3. Duparc/...
13.06.2017 - 50 Years on: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Playlist: Texts read & Music played: Opening track Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ‘Tune in, turn on, drop out’, Timothy Leary ‘Almost metaphysical urban poetry’,...
17.05.2017 - Texts read & Music played: 1. Robert Schumann: Humoresque 2. Emily Dickinson: I dwell in possibility 3. A curious Cloud surprised the Sky 4. Eduard Grieg: Morning Mood, from Peer Gynt, Suite no.1 5. The Day came slow – till Five...
