‘Having come here for a purpose, to trace the fault line of his own history, he searches for the year that saw its inception.’
Standing on the huge, lettered rock, the clink of climbers’ chains at the back of him, the breath of other untutored scramblers fading as they make their way back down the grassy, bee-infested footholds, he can see, lying in that open valley at the foot of Rumbles Moor, the town where he first lea…
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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.
