Bøker av Roz Kaveney

The Rhapsody of Blood series follows two women, Mara and Emma, in their struggle against the mysterious enemy Berin who taught men how to become gods through slaughter - the Rituals of Blood.Mara, immortal Huntress, destroys the Aztec gods, Robespierre and Jack the Ripper. She witnesses the flooding of Atlantis and the Crucifixion. She searches across the for her murdered sisters Sof and Lillit, cursed by wishes all three made before time From the forests of Europe to the deserts of Asia and Africa Jerusalem to Alexandria, Paris and past, present and future London, Mara is up against conquistadors, zombies and primordial fungus with allies that range from Jehovah to Montezuma, Voltaire to HG Wells and cockney spymistress Polly.An ogre eats her lover Caroline, whose ghost recruits modern Emma to the fight. Originally with no powers save wit and intelligence, Emma faces down angels, elves, vampires, a mad monstrous Britartist and invading mathematical entities and becomes the new ruler of Hell...Formidable apart, unstoppable as allies, Mara and Emma are the world's last hope against the wily Berlin and his prophesy of doom.The Ring of Flesh will Burst, the Sleepers Will Awake and All Will be Undone

From the author of the Lambda Literary award-winning roman a clef, Tiny Piece of Skull, also available from Team Angelica Publishing, this chapbook is a passionate collection of highly personal poems by trans elder Roz Kaveney, most of them written in the white heat of the current moment of marked anti-trans hostility; others to mark Trans Day of Remembrance.From the foreword: "In the autumn of 2021, well into the second year of Covid-19 and the start of the fifth year of the War On Trans, I noticed a lot of bleakness creeping into trans social media and thought it my job as a community elder to remind young people that things have been, if not worse, at least as bad in different ways. Back in the late '70s, when I transitioned, I acquired as my peer group a bunch of slightly younger trans women who I met around Soho, and for a short while became their landlady, bail person and wailing wall. I had middle class and educational privilege they didn't - I hope I used it for the greater good. It was - as much as my time in Chicago - the making of me. It taught me a lot about solidarity. And then we all moved on. Some of them died: some of them are still alive. The important thing about life in an embattled community is to have each other's backs."

"Roz Kaveney's modern adaptations of Catullus' poems bring them right up to date - in all their, sometimes shocking, 'new-ness': a good reminder how edgy ancient poetry could be."- Mary Beard, Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge"To make Catullus' much-translated poems seem surprising and fresh is a rare achievement - but nothing less than the most scabrous, the most tender of Roman poets deserves. A wonderful feat."- Tom Holland, historian and novelist"Hilarious, poignant, mischievous, distraught, Roz Kaveney's twinkling versions capture the staggering range of Catullus' poetic moods, subjects, and forms … She nails the jokes, uproariously; brilliantly sees how Catullus' world and ours superimpose …"- Nick Lowe, Reader in Classics, Royal Holloway University"In a great time for female translators of Catullus, Roz Kaveney's versions are a particular delight. With her use of language and verse structure, she seems to capture the authentic voice of the poet."- Tony Keen, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

From the deep dark forests of primordial Europe to the deserts of Africa... From the gardens of what was once Hell and is now something new and different to the sinister silent halls of a rebuilt Valhalla... From the gloomy London of the late Victorian London to a very different London of bright lights, coffee shops and cocktail parties...Mara the Huntress and a newly apotheosized Emma pursue the mysterious enemy who devised and teaches the Rituals of Blood, and the people he has corrupted - the Huntsman god, some annoying hipsters and the man they called the Ripper. With new friends like H.G. Wells and Mary, the mother of Josette, and old acquaintances like Polly Wilde, Elodie and the restored and resurrected Sof, they frustrate some of the enemy's schemes but still have no sense of his end game.This fourth volume of the much admired Rhapsody of Blood sequence is as grim and occasionally hilarious as its predecessors.

The worst days of their lives... Mara, immortal huntress of murderous gods, has told Aleister Crowley many stories. Now he persuades her to tell the stories she does not want to tell - of Josh and Judas, the charming clever boys she and her sister/lover Sof protected and taught in Alexandria, and of Hypatia, Sof's last incarnation before madness took her. Mara cannot save everyone and these are the tales of her worst failures... Emma is in danger. Lucifer has carried her beloved Caroline off to Hell and Jehovah wants Emma dead and his servant. She and her mysterious employer Josette journey to Hell to rescue Caroline, but what they have to deal with there is beyond Emma's ready wit and Josette's powers of intrigue... The third volume of Roz Kaveney's four-part novel of the fantastic RHAPSODY OF BLOOD, RESURRECTIONS is her darkest and most daring book yet.

Discusses the slow accretion of comics universes from the thirties onwards, the debate within the conventions of the superhero comic about whether superheroes are a good thing and the discussion within the comics fan community of the extent to which superhero comics are disfigured by misogyny and sexism.