Lavinia Greenlaw

‘Do they dance for those creatures / whose unmade selves / come unbuttoning out of the dark?’

Ted Hodgkinson

‘There are few things worse than being rebuked by the very books you have promised yourself you will read.’

Sadaf Halai

‘Of the 36 views of Fuji, this one is the strangest: / the great wave off Kanagawa, frozen and tempestuous, / both sound and silence.’

Amy Gerstler

‘I must remember god is not my private / secretary.’

Leila Guerriero

‘One day my father called me over to explain to me about the little seed, patting my head as if he were offering me his condolences.’

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Sadaf Halai

‘It made the sound of / a small balloon dropping.’

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Maja Hrgović

‘I feel stupid in the wrinkled Mickey Mouse T-shirt.’

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Janice Galloway

‘Abstain was the only advice we were getting.’

Selima Hill

‘Black against the sky the giant mothers / are whispering together in the moonlight’

Kris Hofmann

‘What is a feminist, anyway? What does it mean, to call yourself one?’

Hiromi Itō

‘Who connects with the next woman / With tens and hundreds and thousands of women.’

Mark Gevisser

‘The city was also a place of possibility and even, paradoxically, liberation.’

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Juan Felipe Herrera

Eduardo Halfon

‘The roads of Guatemala have always been its best and worst theatre.’