At thirty, I fled from my life
in a hailstorm and firestorm, into what
I termed ‘the big rest’,
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At thirty, I fled from my life
in a hailstorm and firestorm, into what
I termed ‘the big rest’,
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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.
Paula Bohince’s third collection is Swallows and Waves (Sarabande, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Granta, as well as the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Poetry, the TLS, the Irish Times, and elsewhere. She has received awards from the Poetry Society of America and the UK National Poetry Competition. She has been the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholar, the Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place, and a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts.
More about the author →‘It seemed that recording her sickness was cold and vulgar, that if ever I should be a participant and not an observer, this was the time.’
‘I love Shakespeare’s slow insistence, which mirrors the action within the poem: there is nothing but grief to reach.’ Paula Bohince on Shakespeare’s sonnet 50.
‘I like the friction of fixed physical atmospheres with different lives passing through.’
‘Words only point to experience, they can’t replace it.’
Vanessa Onwuemezi and Colin Herd discuss UFOs, relation, and the search for an inner sense of home.
Winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region.
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