Welcome to issue seven of The Attention Span Newsletter by me, Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil. I’m a writer, a literary translator, an artist and a curator of cultural programmes based in Amsterdam.Every other week, I take the time to reflect and offer a glimpse of how I see the world through the lens of culture, art, translation, poetry and literature. Each issue has a short essay, a nerdy look at translation, a page from one of my notebooks, a list of things to read, watch or listen to.This podcast is made for those of you who prefer an audio experience. You can also support my work via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theattentionspan Thank you for your presence and attention!EPISODE 7 SHOW NOTES:From Cohen to Carson: The Poet's Novel in Canada by Ian Rae: https://www.mqup.ca/from-cohen-to-carson-products-9780773532762.php Family Ties by Aysel Bodur: https://ayselbodur.com/art/family-ties/ Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s Newsletter, Sitting in Silence: https://mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com The Queen’s English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Expressions (2021) by Chloe Davis https://www.thequeensenglishus.com Reading/Watching/Listening toListening/ A conversation “What kind of language are we left with” held between Mirene Arsanios and Celina Su, recorded in February 2021 for the Invitation to Species Podcast. The poets, both “motherless mothers without mother tongues,” discuss the lineages of their languages, liminal subjectivities and the impossibility of “we” in light of differentially distributed access to resources. Together, they consider how our social relations are being rewritten and disrupted in a time of ongoing crisis and disaster. https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/mirene-arsanios-and-celina-su-what-kind-of-language/id1509316924?i=1000522987507&l=en-GBReading/ Poetry again! And since I mentioned a podcast she was on, let me recommend Celina Su’s poetry collection Landia (2018), which I had come across to in the unique and fragile bookshop Perdu in Amsterdam. You can read one of Su’s poetry on the Poetry Foundation website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/celina-su Watching/ I was very sad to hear about Jane Birkin’s death two weeks ago, aged 76 (and then we lost Shuhada' Sadaqat – aka Sinead O’Connor, aged 56, which was another shock). When a famous person dies, commemorative documentaries, articles and all sorts of content come out. ARTE TV is broadcasting this documentary about Birkin from 2019, by Clelia Cohen. It’s poignant to watch now after we know she is gone:   https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/089088-000-A/jane-birkin-simply-an-icon/

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