DIMITRA XIDOUS
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  • About
  • Publications
    • Μηδέν | Oὐδέν
    • Keeping Bees
  • Projects
    • (S)worn State(s) >
      • Writing Sessions >
        • Session 1
        • Session 2
        • Session 3
    • Form Ever Follows Function (Exhibition)
    • Here is a Box
    • Film Poems
  • News
    • Letting the Fish Cast its Own Shadow!
    • COLLECTION / ATTENTION >
      • A Favourite Tree
    • Bring Back Dragana (Censorship & The Body)
  • Contact
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"It has only happened once before, when you get a cover email that pitches a piece of work that is a beautiful piece of writing in and of itself, and a pitch that is good enough to publish on its own. I could have published Dimitra Xidous' email, but I'm glad she fleshed it out. I want to read a little bit from the essay, We Cannot Be Trusted With Chairs  -

"The motion of the hand, though, it’s beginnings, what puts the hand to work, for me, has its origin elsewhere, in the elemental of every black sound, something that can only be captured by the O of the poet’s eye.   Duende, Lorca writes, ‘is a power, not a work, a struggle, not a thought…its arrival always means a radical change in forms. It brings to old planes unknown feelings of freshness, with the quality of something newly created.’  Ask me to explain it and I will raise a hand in space, and after a second, tilt it; here, the action of the small movement is a tiny shift, where the familiar becomes new, alarming and true again.  Duende dilates my poet’s eye, and my eye sees the black sound in a familiar thing, and the familiar thing is tilted, changed by the action of the small movement; the tiny shift creates a crack in form (there is a crack in everything; yes, everything): light rushes in and the world, the world is blown wide open. ​"

Dimitra's hand not only tilts, it spirals, to create a beautifully crafted essay on Lorca, Leonard Cohen, Guernica, Richard Serra, Dragana Jurisic, place, the weight of the body, and it includes a masterfully controlled 32-line sentence, that reads like a 21st Century Molly Bloom." - Susan Tomaselli, Editor of gorse ​

Publications 

Books
Μηδέv | Oὐδέν  Doire Press (2020)
Keeping Bees  (Doire Press, 2014)

Poems, Essays, Articles, Interviews & Reviews

2021
Review - Poetry Ireland Review (Issue 134) Martin Dyar reviews Μηδέν | Oὐδέν (November 2021)
Essay - My Mother Calls Me to Tell Me - TOLKA Journal - Issue 1 (July 2021)  
Poem
- a dress is some god on a hanger / the rag of god retracting - The Bellfield Review No. 1 (Spring 2021)

Essay - All Dogs go to Heaven - Under The Influence - Anthology   "...outstanding essay(s) are Dimitra Xidous’ raw, brave and honest essay-poem that traverses the nature of memory, intimacy, sexual desire, failure, the body and influence,.." (July 2021)
Featured Piece - Zero Point - Honest Ulsterman (February 2021)

2020
Residency - 
Heinrich Böll Cottage - Residency (August 2020)
Poems - Imprints - Poem Brut Series - 3:AM Magazine (July 2020)

2019
Review -  Deaf Republic - Ilya Kaminsky - The Stinging Fly Blog (July 2019)
Poem - Aqui hay una caja  (Here is a box, translated into Spanish) -P&P+arte, Issue 1 (June 2019)
Panel Chair - On Joyce and Intimacy - with writers June Caldwell and Vigdis Hjorth - James Joyce Centre - Bloomsday Festival 2019 (June 2019)
Short Essay - The Nature of Cities - What I mean when I talk about Collaboration - (February 2019)
Exhibition - Form Ever Follows Function - co-curator (The Pickled Body + gorse journal collaboration) February 4-March 8, 2019.  For more on the project, visit here.

2018
Podcast: Dimitra Xidous & Keeping Bees - Boundless and Bare Podcast (November 2018): 'English is the worst language in which to speak about love'.
Fundraiser - All Together for a Proper Repeal, with: Susan Tomaselli, Joanne Hayden, Christodoulos Makris, Mongoose, BeRn, Dragana Jurisic, Oana Marian, The Poet Geoff, June Caldwell, and Adrian Crowley (at Proper Order Coffee, with treats donated by Sceal Bakery) - Together for Yes fundraiser (May 19, 2018)
Essay - Making Them Mo(u)rning Sounds - The Real Story - In the Half-Light, part of the Not Quite Light Festival 2018 - Manchester, UK 


2017
Chair - Art + Writing - #5: Eye - Chaired discussion with Dragana Jurisic + Kevin Breadnach  (November 24, 2017)
Essay - gorse on-line -  (This is ( 0 ) is When)  (June 2017)
Essay - gorse - Issue 8 - We Cannot Be Trusted With Chairs  (March 2017)

2015
Poem - The Stinging Fly - Winter 2015 Issue - From Zero
Poem - Cave Paintings - Fall 2015 - A matter of (collaboration with visual artist Michelle Costello)
Interview - Le Cool - Cave Paintings 
Featured Piece - Visual Verse - October 2015 - To Yield Is To
Poem - Anthology - Hallelujah for Fifty Foot Women (Bloodaxe, 2015) - Peach Season
Poem - The Bohemyth - March 2015 - The pink look  (collaboration with poet Victoria Kennefick)
Poem - NAGYVILAG - February 2015 - 3 poems (Hungarian translations of Onions, Peach Season, and Holes) 

2014
Interview - RTE Arena - Dublin Book Festival (November 2014)
Review - Keeping Bees reviewed in Hot Press Magazine (June 2014)
Interview - Dimitra Xidous - Keeping Bees and meeting Leonard Cohen
Essay - ‘Keeping Bees’ and The Body (or why I will never f*ck a man who is not a feminist) 
(The Stinging Fly Blog (April 2014)
Poem - The Stinging Fly - Spring 2014 - Featured Poet: Bone Collector, Peach Season, Ovum, and other poems.
Essay - Madrid is (Still) a Woman - The Inspiration for Keeping Bees (writing.ie March 2014)
Poem - Holes - Finalist in the 2014 Malahat Review Open Season Awards
Poem - The Penny Dreadful - Issue 3 - Death Is Always Inevitable
Poem -The Bohemyth - March 2014 - 3 poems
Poem - Colony - Issue 1 - Horse Logic
Article - Bad Advice: 10 writers on the tips that did no good (The Stinging Fly blog)

2013
Interview - Patrick Chapman & Dimitra Xidous. editors of The Pickled Body
Interview - Burning Bush II
Poem - Keeping Bees - Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize
Poem - Penduline Press - Issue 9 - 5 poems
Poem - The Weary Blues -  Issue 4 - 2 poems 
Poem - Burning Bush 2 - Issue 4 - I do not think my eyes are pretty
Poem - The Dalhousie Review - Spring 2013 - The pigeon

2012
Poem - wordlegs.com - Winter 2012 - chicken feet
Poem - Bare Hands Anthology - Love Bares the Wood 
Poem - Room - Issue 35.3 - Here is a Box (Vive La Petite Mort!) 
Poem - Bare Hands Poetry - Issue 10 - 2 poems
Poem - Bywords Quarterly Journal - Spring 2012 - Honey
Poem - bywords.ca - March 2012 - without ceremony

2011
Poem - The Cactus Army - Longlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize
Poem - bywords.ca - March 2011 - You cannot tell me

2010
Poem - Bywords Quarterly Journal - Summer 2010 - Madrid is a Woman 
Poem - bywords.ca - June 2010 - Onions (link to poem film)
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