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 “Beginning in 2010, on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give...
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...
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...
