We discuss her collection, Doing the Most with the Least, on the Granta Podcast.
‘don’t be / shocked when I say I was in prison you’re still in prison that’s / what this land means prison.’
In this episode, Josie Mitchell talks to Momtaza Mehri about her poetry pamphlet, Doing the Most with the Least, out with Goldsmiths Shorts.
They discuss the value of self-interrogation, the significance of the Black Arts Movement and the limits to checking your privilege.
You can read Momtaza’s poetry and essays on our website. And her recent essay in the Guardian, ‘Anti-racism requires so much more than checking your privilege’, can be found here.
‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
