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Daniela Nicolaescu is a writer, co-founder of the KERNING poetry club, and a researcher, working on avant-garde utopias. She writes in English, French, and Romanian, and has published in France, Romania, the UK, the USA, and Spain.
Her bilingual collection, Hyperboréen (2024, Éditions Spinelle), follows a modern-day Alice, an avatar of the author, over a decade spent in Romania, Italy, France, and England. With simple, visceral, and surreal imagery, the poems explore what it means to live between languages and worlds, and how personal and collective crises reshaped her sense of home, memory, and self.
Buy Hyperboréen from Editions Spinelle or Amazon.fr.
Other People's Poems
20 August 2024 Other People's Poems, I will be performing a poem from my book Hyperboréen at the 'Other People's Poetry' event, along with some other poems that have inspired me.
1 April 2026, My article, Utopia and the Pleasure of Deviation in Isidore Isou’s 'Journaux des dieux', is now published in French Studies Bulletin, Volume 47, Number 2-3.
November 2025. I performed my poetry and sold my books at Oxford Indie Book Fair.
30 April 2025, I will present a paper on 'The Utopian Visions of Tristan Tzara, Isidore Isou and Gherasim Luca' at the Centre for World Literatures, University of Leeds.
25 January 2025, Together with Blaise Sales, I will run a workshop on poetic collages exploring tongues (furry and otherwise), language, and surrealist transformations, as part of Henry Moore’s centenary exhibition, 'The Traumatic Surreal'. This 3-hour workshop is designed for individuals aged 12 to 20.
Tongueomania: Languages, Animals and Surrealist Anatomies
10 December 2024, Join us for the launch of 'The Other Side of Hope' Magazine, where I’ll be reading my poems alongside Blaise and Jonny from our poetry group, KERNING.
7 September 2024, Hyde Park Book Club, Book launch of Hyperboréen collection of English and French poems. REGISTER HERE.
20 August 2024 Other People's Poems, I will be performing a poem from my book Hyperboréen at the 'Other People's Poetry' event, along with some other poems that have inspired me.
1-3 July 2024 I presented a paper titled: 'Spectral Spaces of Holocaust and Hauntings in Serge Moscovici in Mon après-guerre à Paris and Isidore Isou in L’Agrégation d’un nom et d’un messie', at the 65th Annual Conference, University of Stirling.
31 May 2024 I presented a paper on 'Resistance and deviations in Journaux des dieux (1950) by Isidore Isou, at King's College London.
07 February 2024 Poetry reading of the poem 'Weeping archives' at More Song at the Record Cafe, hosted by Tom Branfoot.
Throughout 2024 running KERNING poetry sessions at the University of Leeds together with Blaise Sales and Jon Gilbert.
Kerning is a University of Leeds’ postgraduate poetry writing group. The group embraces all poetic and associated performance practices, from the ‘traditional’ to the ‘experimental’.
Email: daniela.nicolaescu@yahoo.com
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