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‘If you laugh and tell me I am only speaking metaphorically, I will reply: what other way do you expect me to speak?’
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‘The slutty ingenuity of vegetables when it comes to desire and reproductive methods is a marvel.’
Rebecca May Johnson negotiates allotment culture.
‘Globalisation is incomplete: money can go anywhere, but laws cannot.’
Oliver Bullough on one of Britain’s most contested outposts: the British Virgin Islands.
‘You discover during your very first lessons that the problem of singing better involves overcoming many other problems you had not ever imagined.’
A new story from Lydia Davis.
‘She began to count; it was easier this way, counting, because she would not have to remember how she felt.’
An excerpt from Ukamaka Olisakwe’s Ogadinma.
‘Like any desert, I learn myself by what’s desired of me—
and I am demoned by those desires.’
From Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz.
Tara Bergin was born in Dublin. Her first collection of poems, This is Yarrow, was awarded the 2014 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize and the 2014 Shine/Strong Award for best first collection by an Irish author. She currently lives in the north of England.
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‘So the young girls, / cast as naughty young girls from the Acropolis, / left – / just with some things missing.’
‘Does it make you a little ghostly yourself, when what’s gone is more present for you than what’s here?’
Anna Badkhen was researching Eden – the origins of humanity in the Afar Triangle of East Africa – when coronavirus broke out across the world.
‘Thank any God, our emergency is celestially authorised’
New poetry by Jay G. Ying.
‘I didn’t believe my eyes, not even when I saw what was happening in front of them.’
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