MIA KE OLOKLIRI, mia chapsia (2017) | A Poetry Collection by Ntiana Manesi
Anagnostopoulos A. & Efthymiou A. (Eds.) Athens: QueerInk Publishing.
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The book One And Whole: One Bite by Diana Manesi explores language and its borders and embodied writing through playful experimentations with poetic form. Her poetic language spells out and misspells words, opens up to linguistic gaps, draws from the body, and attempts to write from a “female” position within a “male” Symbolic Order.
“With the rhythm of my writing I want to sing the abyss and occupy a not-me position. In my journey, I come across lesbian desires, hysterical denouncements, creative ambivalences, and identifications with turtles. Germain Dulac, Rosalind Franklin, Yoko Ono, and the Salem witches –Sarah Osborn, Rebecca Ners, Suzanna Martin among others– appear as uninvited ghosts that know more about her who writes than she knows about herself.” Ntiana Manesi Diana Manesi lives between in Athens, GR. She has taught anthropology and feminism in Goldsmiths, University of London, and has worked in human rights organisations against gender violence in London and in Athens. One And Whole: One Bite (2017) is her first poetry book published in Greek. She has also published poems and prose in Greek and in English in print and online publishers such as A) GLIMPSE) OF). Her auto-ethnographic book The Labyrinth is published in 2025 by futura publishing.
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