{"id":3983,"date":"2025-02-27T12:22:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T11:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:22:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T11:22:53","slug":"bloodaxe-showcase-with-dzifa-benson-and-sarah-holland-batt-at-the-culture-lab-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3983","title":{"rendered":"<h6>Bloodaxe Showcase with Dzifa Benson and Sarah Holland-Batt<\/h6> at The Culture Lab Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fsn-row full-width-row fsn-69f203445597f light\" style=\"background-repeat:repeat;background-position:left top;background-attachment:scroll;background-size:auto;\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-column-inner fsn-69f2034455b2e light\"><div class=\"fsn-code fsn-69f2034455cad\"><div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1037833807?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Dzifa Benson and Sarah Holland-Batt at NCLA - 7 Nov 2024\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-69f2034455da6\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Join\u00a0<strong>Dzifa Benson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Sarah Holland-Batt<\/strong>\u00a0who will be reading from their latest books, both just out from Bloodaxe. Monster is Dzifa Benson\u2019s first book length collection. The Jaguar: Selected Poems is a retrospective covering three collections by Sarah Holland-Batt<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dzifa Benson<\/strong>\u00a0was born in London to Ghanaian parents and grew up in Ghana, Nigeria and Togo. She is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist whose work intersects science, art, technology, the body and ritual. She was shortlisted for the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize in 2021. Her abridgement and adaptation of the National Youth Theatre REP Company\u2019s production of Othello toured the UK in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Holland-Batt<\/strong>\u00a0is an award-winning Australian poet, editor, and critic. Her three volumes of poetry \u2013 Aria, The Hazards and The Jaguar \u2013 have each received major Australian literary awards, including the Prime Minister\u2019s Literary Award for Poetry and the Stella Prize. The Jaguar was longlisted for the Griffin Prize. She is Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Astley<\/strong>\u00a0is the founder and editor of Bloodaxe Books.<\/p>\n<p>This event took place in the Culture Lab on the 7th of Novermber 2024<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4012,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}