LIVE ON NORMAL? FESTIVAL OF THE BRAIN INSTAGRAM

Shazea Quraishi is a Pakistani-born Canadian poet and translator based in London.

A taxidermist on an artist retreat in Mexico enquires into her artistic impulse and explores the meaning of after-life

who is this for?
what remains of us?

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The poems in this book-length sequence play with form and investigate the boundaries of poetry and prose. Enquiry is at the centre of my work as a Living Words artist, poet and educator. I am interested in the idea of Negative Capability, which Keats spoke of in reference to craft and art, as “being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without... reaching after fact and reason.”