‘She was going to have a large life, an important life. She could feel it.’
Fiction by Hadley Franklin, winner of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize 2023.
Interview | Thomas Gardner on Running, Writing, and the Art of Discovery
‘Then as I was writing I was drawing this Exodus-like pillar of cloud, this memory of my brother, out of the dreamscape, out of the fog of the morning.’
Thomas Gardner on the new Daunt Books Publishing edition of his collection, Poverty Creek Journal.
Interview | Charlotte Hopkins Hall: Forever Entangled in a Causal Loop
‘As an artist, I’m an observer. My role is to alert and call to attention, not write policy. My sensibility is such that I experience the world intensely and recreate it in a visual form. But to try and answer this impossible question, one of such complexity, rooted in history and human avarice, a plan of correction would take time, which we don’t have, and a concerted effort, which we don’t have.’
Charlotte Hopkins Hall on her forthcoming show at Gallery 46.
Fiction | That Time After Dinner by Jago Rackham
‘“It’s your birthday tomorrow,” said my mother. “Did you know the Jesuits say ‘Give me a child before the age of seven and he’ll be mine forever?’” “Who are the Jesuits?” “Priests.” “Oh.” She tousled my hair. “Thank god you’ve met none.”’
New fiction by Jago Rackham.
Interview | Toby Lloyd on Fervour: A Meditation on Family, Faith and Generational Trauma
‘A lot of horror films trade in Christian symbols and ideas – demons, upside down crucifixes and so on. Jewish folklore is just as stuffed with goblins and witches and ghosts – all manner of fun things to play around with. So why shouldn’t they play a part in my modern Jewish novel?’
Toby Lloyd on his debut novel, Fervour.
Poetry | Karma by Jane Zwart
‘Of justices, karma is the most poetic— / a magistrate who makes us wear / our wrongs: albatrosses, ugly charms.’
New poetry by Jane Zwart.
Essay | One Hundred Years of Nijinska
‘Both contemporary pieces seek to build on this revolutionary choreography rather than imitate it perfectly, yet both acknowledge that Nijinska’s work marked key developments in the world of choreography, bridging the gap between one century and the next in the world of classical dance. So how did it come to pass that now she is known primarily as a keeper of her brother’s career?’
Esmee Wright on Bronislava Nijinska.
Fiction | The Singing Tribe by Benjamin George Coles
‘I mean something closer to: am I a good person? Am I sincere and devout to those things in my life that I ought to be?’
New fiction by Benjamin George Coles.
Poetry | It’s About Time by Michael Bazzett
‘I’d rather let roots slip between my ribs / and knit these bones into the black soil / to keep them still and ease what restlessness/ might remain.’
New poetry by Michael Bazzett.
Poetry | Motif by Luciana Francis
‘I feed the birds / before I feed myself.’
New poetry by Luciana Francis.
Poetry | Even My Portraitist by Sylee Gore
‘Like clouds, I take my colour from the air.’
New poetry from Sylee Gore.
Fiction | After Sunlight by Gary Finnegan
‘The few days turned to weeks and years and it was a decade before we spoke about the future, a conversation focused on the past.’
New fiction by Gary Finnegan.
Poetry | Hit me with your rhythm stick by Rachel Burns
‘Dad drinks a pint of Newcastle Brown
feet sticking to the floor,
the room thick with fag smoke.
Dad 70’s cool, beard & sideburns & swagger.’
New poetry by Rachel Burns.
Fiction | Baa by Lilia Salammbô Fetini
‘You grow up in poverty. You are told you are lucky, and that luck is why you are the only child in the family who gets an education. You have a natural sense for numbers, and feel that luck is a question of numbers. It is a question of the number of years separating you and your siblings from the source of luck.’
New fiction by Lilia Salammbô Fetini.
Poetry | If you look closely by Tim Relf
‘everything is muddled, everything is metaphor.’
New poetry by Tim Relf.
Interview | Eva Fàbregas’s forms of desire
Currently showing at the Southbank Centre’s When Forms Come Alive exhibition, we spoke to Eva Fàbregas about her sculptural installations, form, and desire.
Interview | Self Portraits of Unconditional Love in David Tucker: Dad
Currently showing at Gallery 46, we spoke to David Tucker about his fearless paintings and sculptures.
Essay | For the Sake of a Few Trees by Pacifica Goddard
Pacifica Goddard on Hetch Hetchy & The Greatest Good
Review | World Rifting by Patrick Cash
Patrick Cash reviews Isabel Waidner’s ‘Corey Fah Does Social Mobility’ and Alison Rumfitt’s ‘Brainwyrms’
Review | Light Verse by Hugh Foley
Hugh Foley reviews Ben Lerner’s ‘The Lights’ and Timothy Donnelly’s ‘Chariot’
Fiction | People Who Can Love by Sarah Turner
‘I’d heard about the surgery even before Cathy reminded me of it. They’d discussed it on the radio one morning, and I’d half listened as I was making coffee, but it seemed experimental – outlandish, even – and I assumed the idea would flicker, smoke, and then go out, like the time they talked about finding volunteers to go to space forever.’
New fiction by Sarah Turner.
Review | Intellectual Property by Katrina Nzegwu
‘Whilst approaching the prosaic in terms of length and division, Warmelo’s disregard for grammatical conventions pays homage to, yet disrupts and furthers a poetic legacy.’
Katrina Nzegwu reviews Aea Varfis-van Warmelo’s Intellectual Property.
Interview | Martin Lau, winner of TLM Cover Competition 2023, talks alteration, identity, and multicultural London
Martin Lau, winner of TLM Cover Competition 2023, talks alteration, identity, and multicultural London . . . In your artistic…
Interview | How Lubaina Himid’s Lost Threads confronts Bath’s colonial past
Katie Tobin How Lubaina Himid’s Lost Threads confronts Bath’s colonial past Lost Threads at The Holburne Museum, 19 January –…
You must be logged in to post a comment.