Old man, you surface seldom. / Then you come in with the tide’s coming / When seas wash cold, foam- / Capped: white hair, white beard, far-flung, / A dragnet, rising, falling, as waves / Crest and trough. Miles long […]
The Lobster
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Short Story Competition: A word from the Judges
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Short Story Competition: A word from the Judges
With just a few weeks left till the end of our annual Short Story Competition we spoke to the Judges to find out…
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This Dark Art by Neil Burns
This Dark Art If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow, and which…
Difficult Cup by Isabel Galleymore
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Lifesaving by Wes Lee
Lifesaving They don’t do it anymore, breathe into the mouth to save. We had learnt it reluctantly, lined up beside…
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
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The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood In 2009, Ursula K. Le Guin caused something of a stir in the…
The New World by Chris Adrian & Eli Horowitz
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Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt
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The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
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Purity by Jonathan Franzen
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An Interview with Calisi Press
In recent months Ferrante Fever has been catching. If you haven’t already heard of the anonymous Italian female author who’s…
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Refugees I know a thing or two about refugees – As a child I heard father say, “We were sleeping…
‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ – Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone
This year London houses a major retrospective of the work of Barbara Hepworth alongside her friend and contemporary Henry Moore…
Replete by Maggie Butt
Replete Enough of beauty – I have devoured small boats curtseying at anchor, green palace-dotted hills swarming the spice-scented shore…
O Brittania Where Art Thou? An interview with Mohammad Zahoor
by Steven O’Brien This interview originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Mohammad Zahoor is a Ukraine-based British businessman and publisher of the…
Exile by Manash Bhattacharjee
Exile “I rested my mouth on your memory” ~ Yannis Ritsos, from Diaries of Exile [In the event of Greece…
Review of ‘The Trial’ at The Young Vic
‘The Trial’ at The Young Vic Rory Kinnear embodied the frantic Josef K masterfully. In this adaptation by Nick Gill,…
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