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Tara Bergin
‘If you laugh and tell me I am only speaking metaphorically, I will reply: what other way do you expect me to speak?’
The Back Way and the Way Back
Will Boast
Despite emerging from two decades of misrule under Yahya Jammeh, many Gambians still aspire to go ‘the back way’ into Europe.
The Blue Clerk
Dionne Brand
‘Now you are sounding like me, the clerk says. I am you, the author says.’
The Boat
John Connell
John Connell writes of a trial and a murder during the Irish War of Independence.
The Canada Pictures
Douglas Coupland
‘In the year leading up to this I started collecting objects that, in some way, evoked a sense of Canadianness in me.’
The Comrades and I
Mona Abouissa
Mona Abouissa on her experiences with Egyptian communists, and the role they played in Egypt before 1952, when they were excised from official history.
The Farm
Nicola Barker
‘Yes. Oh yes. That is who we once were. The Young must never, ever allow themselves to ignore what has brought them here.’
The Martians Claim Canada
Margaret Atwood
‘Mushrooms have long memories. Some of them are thousands of years old. However, they are not always very talkative.’
The New Me
Halle Butler
‘But I feel sure. Making some decisions today, no doubt about that! Not thinking about certain things today, no doubt about that!’
The Remains of the Day
Emily Berry
‘I am lying in the foetal position on a beach in the east of England.’
The Republic of Motherhood
Liz Berry
‘a cardigan / soft as a creature, smelling of birth and milk’ – New poetry from Liz Berry.
The Scream
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
‘That supremacist is the idea, in those brothers and sisters of mine, of shyness (which no one understands) being an encumbrance that they should purge as they try to find in their interaction with the world a perfect mixture of disdain, meekness and expansiveness.’
