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Raymond Antrobus | Interview
Raymond Antrobus
‘That is what capital L literature is in some ways, a conversation with the ghosts all around us.’
An interview with the 2019 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.
The Taste of the Feeling
Peter Mishler
‘Shy yet contemptible object / in an unleaking vial collected.’
Tasked with Designing the Vienna House
Ken Babstock
‘Sky of bright rust and / soapy aquamarine.’
Windrush Reflections
Vahni Capildeo
‘It is not informational, it is / not a blameshift, it is not / all-lives-matter top down and sideways blank.’
Three Poems
Vi Khi Nao
‘To unfriend the refrain of sorrow / One must break the ribcage of a city’
Neoterics and the Field
(out of Callimachus)
John Kinsella
‘This oven this earth as dust this water we watch vanish and ancient’
Four Poems
Crispin Best
‘i feel good like a person / holding flowers on a train / feels dumb’
we are seen by the world / what must be seen
Nisha Ramayya
‘oh dirty feet blood-clotter / oh grease monkey clod-hopper / oh cloud-devourer spit’
Three Poems
Chus Pato
‘you alone sit down at that table / facing the houses you tried to inhabit’
Translated from the Galician by Erín Moure.
Three Poems
Anthony Anaxagorou
‘we are born / to a siren and the wail of each other’
