I recently spent a week in an unremarkable town in South West England. Throughout the day, which I spent alone, I found myself feeling trapped and anxious.
Review | This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
Scottish music in 1983 This is Memorial Device, David Keenan, Faber and Faber, February 2017, pp.304, £14.99, (paperback) News of the…
Archive | Why I Write — Joan Didion
First published in the June/July 1977 of The London Magazine (Vol. 17, No. 2)Â Of course I stole the title…
Interview | Ben Aleshire
Ben Aleshire makes his living as a travelling poet, writing poems on his typewriter for whatever his readers can spare…
2018 Essay Competition | Judges’ Interview Nicola Griffith and Pico Iyer
We had a quick conversation with the judges of our 2018 Essay Writing Competition — Nicola Griffith and Pico Iyer…
Archive | Pier Paolo Pasolini — Divina Mimesis: Canto VII
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian poet, novelist and film-maker, who died in mysterious circumstances in 1975 in an as-yet-unsolved…
Confessions of an English Opium Eater: An Essay by David Punter
Before its controversial and ground-breaking publication as a book in 1822, Thomas De Quincey’s autobiographical account of opiate addiction Confessions…
My London | Tyne O’Connell
O’Connell lives and works in Mayfair, which serves as a backdrop for much of her contemporary women’s fiction, including ‘Making…
Essay | The Commune of the City by Ian Stone
On 28 October 1272 King Henry III (1216-72) lay dying at Westminster Palace. His eldest son, Edward, returning from crusade,…
Essay | Meg Wolitzer’s #MeToo Moment by Sophie Perryer
Meg Wolitzer must be psychic. Well before the explosive allegations against Harvey Weinstein were revealed and the #MeToo movement gathered…
Essay | Peas by Alice Dunn
One of the stand-out gardens at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show appeared to replicate the pea in its structure.…
Essay | A Journey Through Silence by Georgie Knaggs
The chat stops. We rise to our feet, step back over our benches. My foot hunts for its flip-flop. I…
Essay | Personal Feeling is the Main Thing by Sue Hubbard
By Sue Hubbard I have long been interested in the work of Chantal Joffe and have written about her on…
Essay | My London by Mark Wilkins
Arriving in London in late September 1977 to start a law degree course, I fell irretrievably in love with London,…
Essay | Re-reading Frankenstein by Alice Dunn
It is tempting to read Frankenstein as a means of understanding Mary Shelley. 200 years after the novel was first…
Essay | On Writing Ethnic Stories by Haleh Agar
I was told to use my maiden name – Hassan-Yari, a name that usually meant extra questions at the customs…
Essay| Shetland Norn by Simon Tait
Shetland is a quiet, self-possessed nation of 22,000 whose population still considers itself to be more Norse than British. They…
Donald Trump – America’s First Oligarch-in-Chief
By Mohammad Zahoor On 20th January this year Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the United States. In…
Internet Poetry by Paul Gittins
In the seventh of his twelve lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry, the late Geoffrey Hill took issue with the…
Castles in the Air | Stephen Chambers : The Court of Redonda
Princes, prefects, urchins and poets; these are just a few in a court of luminaries setting sail to Venice. But…
Essay | Marion Coutts: ‘Aiming or Hitting’ by Annie Carpenter
These are busy times for the writer and artist Marion Coutts. Her first novel, The Iceberg, which was published in…
Poetry and the Public by Paul Gittins
The prestigious T.S. Eliot Award in January that kicked off the poetry establishment’s crowded calendar of poetry competitions served to…
Kiss-Kiss-Kissuni by Frances Park
Memories. Some lie dormant for decades then suddenly spring awake, fresh as yesterday. I like to think the writer in…
Fractals by Sudeep Sen | An Introduction by Fiona Sampson
Ahead of the launch of Sudeep Sen’s Fractals, read a few words on Sudeep Sen’s new collection by poet Fiona…
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