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@PallinaPress is all about, it& #39;s the new small press
@SunaAfshan & I founded in Feb this year. We& #39;ve published issue 3 & 4 of PBLJ through it and on Monday we are opening submissions for our first ever Pallina Pamphlets!
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@PallinaPress is all about, it& #39;s the new small press
@SunaAfshan & I founded in Feb this year. We& #39;ve published issue 3 & 4 of PBLJ through it and on Monday we are opening submissions for our first ever Pallina Pamphlets!
We spent ages thinking about the name, ethos & vision for the press (of course, all these things are related). Greek goddesses? No. Historical Brummie names? No. Place is important to us & so is mythology. One day, I started looking at the map, at the place where my forebears
originate from. I asked Suna about hers & found that too and there roughly halfway between the two is an unassuming village named Pallina. That& #39;s our mid-point; where we meet in the middle on the road to one another.
There& #39;s so much else we talked about. I love engaging with Greek mythology as much as the next poet but sometimes I just feel like fucking Odysseus, he& #39;s had enough remixes, and he& #39;s going to continue to as are all these characters. How many hundreds of recastings & retellings
will we read & keep producing about the same characters, places, stories. How many times will these names be written & read. I say this as I& #39;m writing an Astynome/Cressida pamphlet https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ€Ł" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing">But will I ever see Sparkbrook in literary poetry, Mirpur? I am putting my Daada Abu& #39;s name in
my poems and my Nani& #39;s and I& #39;ll be damned if my shit about Sparkbrook ain& #39;t catalogued in the British Library. We are adding to this literary tradition & this culture & we& #39;re going to do it in our own image & make our own mythologies. We are naming things and defining them.
