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‘Over samosas and pakoras and three different kinds of green chilli chutney, she spoke to us about politics.’
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‘I alone know a running stream
that is recovery partly and dim sweat
of a day-fever’
A poem by Rowan Evans.
‘Humour is a thread we hang onto. It punctures through the fog of guilt.’
Momtaza Mehri in conversation with Warsan Shire.
‘Something shifted in me that night. A small voice in my head said, maybe you can make a way for yourself as a poet here, too.’
Mary Jean Chan in conversation with Andrew McMillan.
‘There was to be an exhibition. There were lots of pictures like his, apparently – of waiters, pastry cooks, valets, bellboys.’
An essay by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 159: What Do You See?
‘I have started to see that nothing is itself’
A poem by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While.
Kamran Nazeer is a contributing editor at Prospect. Born of Pakistani parents, he has lived in New York, Islamabad and Glasgow. His first book is Send In the Idiots: Or How We Grew to Understand the World (Bloomsbury).
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‘His poetry sliced through the gender binary and left it gasping on the floor.’
Katherine Rundell on John Donne.
‘Up on the light box on the wall are the scans of Gary’s brain, bone white standing out against smoked grey.’
John Niven remembers the last days of his brother, Gary.
‘It’s a story that happens to you once and then lives with you forever.’
An excerpt from Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde.
‘Another spring, another sequel.’
A poem by Sasha Debevec-McKenney.
‘Most family relationships are difficult, and sometimes they can become the most difficult human relationships of all.’
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