‘I am the full-time driver here. I am not going to kill my employers. I have read that drivers do that now.’
I am the full-time driver here. I am not going to kill my employers. I have read that drivers do that now. I will make just a few observations.
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‘I want the poem to destroy time. / What are the ceremonies of forgetting?’
An elegy by Nick Laird for his father, Alastair Laird, who died in 2021 of Covid-19. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
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‘My brother and I hurried through sloppy postures of praise, quiet as the light pooling around us.’
A poem by Kaveh Akbar, from his shortlisted collection Pilgrim Bell, first published in Granta 156: Interiors.
‘I wanted to and then / Remembered why I want to never’
Poetry by Shane McCrae, shortlisted for Cain Named the Animal.
‘Would / the apple be concerned / if I said it was not an apple’
Poems by Padraig Regan, from Some Integrity, shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection.
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‘She has the most genuine intentions of any woman out there.’
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A selection of Granta contributors discuss the books they read in 2012.
‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’
