As an exception, this podcast episode is in English. It is actually the recording of our last event, “A radicle reaching for home in the earth: collaborative nature writing.” We hear from two members of the fieldnotes collective, Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles, about their recent publication “This too is a glistening”.
Jessica J. Lee is an award-winning author and environmental historian. She is the author of three books of nature writing, Turning (2017), Two Trees Make a Forest (2019), and Dispersals (2024), and the children’s book A Garden Called Home (2024). She is also co-editor of the essay collection Dog Hearted (2023), and founding editor of The Willowherb Review. She currently lives in Berlin.
Nina Mingya Powles is an Aotearoa New Zealand writer and poet living in London. She is the author of several poetry collections and pamphlets, including Slipstitch (2024), Magnolia 木蘭(2020), Tiny Moons (2020) and the award-winning collection of essays, Small Bodies of Water (2021). She writes a monthly substack on food and memory called Crispy Noodles.
The event was part of the minor cosmopolitan intervention, organised by the Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms of the University of Potsdam. It was hosted by Spore Initiative in Berlin.
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Food writing is a diverse genre that explores food-related topics and goes far beyond recipes and cooking techniques. In literary works, food can, for example, be used as a metaphor, a thematic element, to explore identities or relationships. In this listicle we recommend 5 great books for foodies, including food fiction and food memoirs. We promise that these books will make you hungry.
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Der poco.lit. Podcast startet in die 2. Staffel, in der wir fragen: Wie frei ist die Kulturszene? Wer kann unter den aktuellen gesellschaftspolitischen Bedingungen überhaupt künstlerisch tätig sein? Dazu werden wir uns mit Schriftsteller*innen, Übersetzer*innen, Kollektiven und Vereinen austauschen. Aber wir beginnen mit uns selbst: Wie kann poco.lit. Literaturprojekte umsetzen? Susi und Anna nehmen euch in diesem Gespräch mit hinter die Kulissen und sprechen über Fördermittel und Kooperationen, was sie ermöglichen und was schwierig an ihnen ist. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf poco.lit.s erstem Projekt, der Green Library Reihe, aus der wir euch auch ein Buch vorstellen.
Zum Schluss gibt es zwei Buchempfehlungen von uns. Susi empfiehlt: Fragrant Palm Leaves von Thich Nhat Hanh. Anna empfiehlt: Tu sueño imperios han sido von Autor Álvaro Enrigue, deutsche Übersetzung von Carsten Regling, Von Königreichen hast du geträumt.
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Warm invitation to our upcoming event with Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles at Spore Initiative in Berlin-Neukölln on May 10, 2025.
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As the title already suggests, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai is particularly directed at readers interested in food. The story about food allows for gentle, profound musings on language, belonging and living as a mixed-race person in different places.
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