Renée Eshel
About
I am interested in violence.
The tacit kind, the unexplained kind, the overt kind and the kind kind.
I situate my writing within the canon of contemporary feminist life writing, merging my own diary entries, academic writing, historical events and myths.
I use prose poetry to take a narrative style, investigating the idea of violence, ritual, and girlhood.
Combining naivety and eroticism, I look at the way in which neighbourhoods, protests and harm affect coming of age.
Both tacitly and explicitly, I address violence as a mode of connection, focusing on tensions of rural areas. I dissect the strain and discomfort that lies in reality and the fractures that happen when events become too close for contact.
What it means to press up against the foundations of a community, to be peripheral to, witness or participate in violence, questioning what it means to be an outlier of your own ‘birthing’.
I also believe in clues, lies, sneaking around and taking action.
Make of this what you will.
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