My favourite view is just a sudden vertical glimpse. It’s the drear end of November...
My favourite view is just a sudden vertical glimpse. It’s the drear end of November and I’ve walked across the old meat market of Smithfield, past the great façade of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, past new flowers for William Wallace (blame Braveheart) and wilting carnations for the Protestant m…
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
