"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 - |
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)
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)