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Lecture on Loneliness
Claire Schwartz
‘Only history makes her lonely, only after makes her first.’
A poem by Claire Schwartz.
Notes on Craft
Nataliya Deleva
‘I didn’t want to write Arrival from a place of exile or outcast.’ Nataliya Deleva on writing in her adoptive language.
Two Poems
Emily Berry
‘I do not see / the slow wheels in my blood turning, but / I ride them’
Two poems by Emily Berry.
The Yearner
Rachel Long
‘I stacked three pillows, made sure / my head was heavy with bills, wine’.
A poem by Rachel Long.
The Trip to Rose Cottage
Cal Flyn
‘People washed up here, and remained.’
Cal Flyn visits the abandoned island of Swona.
In a Letter
Kate Zambreno
‘How is it possible we lived in that same house? Although every house in that neighborhood looked more or less alike.’ A story by Kate Zambreno.
Literary Exhibitionism
Nataliya Meshchaninova
‘In my diary I was always sassy, proud, and forbidding.’
E-Friends
Emily Adrian
‘I had also, a week earlier, been fired for trying to sleep with my boss’s husband. I got the idea from a book, or maybe every book.’
New fiction by Emily Adrian.
Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan
‘I wish I could step inside this memory and steady myself, put a cool reassuring hand on my own and convince myself to wait.’
An excerpt from Megan Nolan’s Acts of Desperation, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writers Award.
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘I don’t think we have quite processed yet what those months of isolation did to us – a time of fear and daily death tolls and also of unprecedented curtailment of our freedom of movement. But there were consolations.’
Editor Sigrid Rausing introduces the issue.
