as a road should never do,
closed off even as it continues
towards its green retinue
in a long grey disguise.
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One sprig should do, in a wayfarer’s satchel, to assist in losing all bearings until...
as a road should never do,
closed off even as it continues
towards its green retinue
in a long grey disguise.
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‘Feelings can be very obscure but numbers never lie.’
Kevin Brazil on metrics, obsession and fitness.
‘An intense workout is an ecstasy of punishment packaged as self-improvement.’
Mary Wellesley on exercise, ritual and Barry’s Bootcamp.
‘I was not good at sports because I would not do sports because I did not have the body for sports because I would not do sports.’
Saba Sams on girlhood, embodiment and avoiding sports.
‘Following United rarely brings me any great joy and most often it depresses me. If I could disengage, I would.’
Jonny Thakkar on Manchester United.
‘I deployed my body against an opponent like a blunt and effective instrument.’
John Patrick McHugh on playing Gaelic football.
Rachael Boast's Sidereal won the Foreward Prize for Best First Collection and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize. 'Compass Plant' is taken from Pilgrim's Flower, forthcoming from Picador in October.
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‘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.
‘How do we perform our politics, our outrage and our grievances when we are among a group?’
Anthony Anaxagorou talks about his collection Heritage Aesthetics.
‘It was a commonplace / to enter the woods / with meat, lay it on the ground, then / wait for what might come.’
Poetry by Michael Bazzett.
’There are times when every nation needs to think a little less about its history.‘
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