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Poetry | French Lessons by Jessa Brown

Jessa Brown French Lessons . . some of our best talks were in French, imperfect [,] tense, and almost crying with the strain: how best to really name the way I couldn’t say how I felt, coming close to what I couldn’t tell with words, some bisoux in between, but…

Fiction

Fiction | Evil Eye by Elmos Andrews

Elmos Andrews Evil Eye . . Thalia looked at me, askew. It was as if she hadn’t understood me. But maybe, I realised, she actually hadn’t. I immediately became unsure of the word I had used, a word I had just guessed: I hadn’t ever needed to tell someone that…

Interviews

Interview | A labour of love: how Lynne Segal’s new book explores motherhood and radical care

Katie Tobin A labour of love: how Lynne Segal’s new book explores motherhood and radical care . Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care, Lynne Segal, Verso, pp. 256, £17.99. . . . Your book, Lean On Me, explores the concept of radical care. It’s an idea – through…

Essays

Essay | Pareidolia by Tallulah Griffith

Tallulah Griffith Pareidolia . . . There exists, for each of us, a kind of shape we see repeated. A shard-like template, difficult to grasp, its contours easily recognised and quick to cut the skin, but with an outline that is not standard; akin in some ways to a triangle,…

Fiction

Fiction | Moon Street by Laura-Blaise McDowell

Laura-Blaise McDowell Moon Street . They sit on the patio, sipping their wine in the early evening. . ‘He’s a composer, Erin said.’ . On the other side of the table, Mel nods his head, his steady gaze angled out over the sea where a shell-pink moon has begun…

Interviews

Interview | Libation’s legacy: Malika Booker on her Forward Prize win

Jamie Cameron Libation’s legacy: Malika Booker on her Forward Prize win . Malika Booker won the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written, for ‘Libation’ Congratulations Malika on winning the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for the second time! How did it feel to win? Has…

Interviews

Interview | Elisabeth Mulenga’s choreographic journey through film, faith, and fusion

Katie Tobin Elisabeth Mulenga’s choreographic journey through film, faith, and fusion . Sadler’s Wells presents the first public sharing of new work by the 2023/24 Young Associates BLUE MAKWANA, Elisabeth Mulenga, Maiya Leeke and Roseann & Sula, 22nd – 23rd November at Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells. . . I…

Fiction

Fiction | Our different useless ways by Martin Jackson

Martin Jackson Our different useless ways . . One of the strangest things about the Irish pub was the collection of brass and tin and pewter tankards dangling from its ceiling, hundreds of them, all their handles held by screw-in hooks. When there was a through-draught, the street door opening…

Reviews

Review | The Art of Leading a Witness in Anatomy of a Fall by Blaise Radley

Blaise Radley The Art of Leading a Witness in Anatomy of a Fall . . What is a courtroom if not a staging ground for storytelling? Every aspect of a trial, be it criminal or corporate, hinges on two opposing sides laying claim to a particular version of events, each…

Fiction

Fiction | Tunnelling by Brennig Davies

. Brennig Davies Tunnelling . . I’m in my camping chair, propped at the lip of the hole. So deep now it’s like I’m near the edge of a small cliff. Step off the grass, and it’s a six feet drop into the dark brown earth, and my husband is…

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Fiction | Four Night Seas by Niamh Mac Cabe

Niamh Mac Cabe Four Night Seas . (& An Admission of Failure) . Winner of The London Magazine Short Story…

Essay | Fight or Flight by Daisy Sainsbury

Daisy Sainsbury Fight or Flight . . When I was a child, my dad used to tell a funny story…

Essay | Shelf Haunting by Jeremy Wikeley

Jeremy Wikeley Shelf Haunting . . Before the pandemic, when coincidences still happened, I was haunted by the poet Gavin…

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Poetry | French Lessons by Jessa Brown

Fiction | Evil Eye by Elmos Andrews

Interview | A labour of love: how Lynne Segal’s new book explores motherhood and radical care

Essay | Pareidolia by Tallulah Griffith

Fiction | Moon Street by Laura-Blaise McDowell

Interview | Libation’s legacy: Malika Booker on her Forward Prize win

Interview | Elisabeth Mulenga’s choreographic journey through film, faith, and fusion

Fiction | Our different useless ways by Martin Jackson

Review | The Art of Leading a Witness in Anatomy of a Fall by Blaise Radley

Fiction | Tunnelling by Brennig Davies

Current Issue

Fiction | Four Night Seas by Niamh Mac Cabe

Essay | Fight or Flight by Daisy Sainsbury

Essay | Shelf Haunting by Jeremy Wikeley

Current Issue

Poetry | French Lessons by Jessa Brown

Fiction | Evil Eye by Elmos Andrews

Interview | A labour of love: how Lynne Segal’s new book explores motherhood and radical care

Archive

Archive | Two Poems by Sylvia Plath

Archive | Four Conversations: Philip Larkin by Ian Hamilton

Archive | Alice by W. G. Shepherd

Archive | The Who by Angela Carter

Fiction | Cathedral by Raymond Carver

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