Rebecca Tamás

Rebecca Tamás is a British poet, writer, critic and editor, the daughter of Hungarian philosopher and public intellectual Gáspár Miklós Tamás. She was born in London in 1988. She studied creative writing at the University of Warwick and at the University of Edinburgh, where she won the Grierson Verse Prize, before completing a PhD at the University of East Anglia''. '' She is a lecturer in creative writing at York St John University 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 Freya Waley-Cohen 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.

Poetry

 * The Ophelia Letters (Salt Publishing, 2013) ISBN 9781844719525
 * Savage (Clinic, 2017) ISBN 9780993318245
 * Tiger (Bad Betty Press, 2018)
 * WITCH (Penned in the Margins, 2019) ISBN 9781908058621

Essay

 * Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman (Makina Books, 2020) ISBN 9781916060890

Awards

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