‘Remember Tryweryn’ – graffiti near Aberystwyth
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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.
Jamie McKendrick’s most recent collections of poetry are Ink Stone and Crocodiles & Obelisks and his translations of Valerio Magrelli’s poems, The Embrace.
More about the author →‘When my father saw an advert in the Echo / for a big house at a peppercorn rent / he rang.’
‘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.
‘We have this space and we have permission to summon each other into it. Sibspace.’
Fiction by Ben Pester.
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