‘Gama has defeated them all, and more, but how is he to be Champion of the World if this half of the world is in hiding?’


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‘Gama has defeated them all, and more, but how is he to be Champion of the World if this half of the world is in hiding?’
‘Gama has defeated them all, and more, but how is he to be Champion of the World if this half of the world is in hiding?’
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‘I want the poem to destroy time. / What are the ceremonies of forgetting?’
An elegy by Nick Laird for his father, Alastair Laird, who died in 2021 of Covid-19. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
‘In the place where I grew up there were horses, thighs moving like nudity under their fur’
From Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia, published by Granta Books and shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection.
‘My brother and I hurried through sloppy postures of praise, quiet as the light pooling around us.’
A poem by Kaveh Akbar, from his shortlisted collection Pilgrim Bell, first published in Granta 156: Interiors.
‘I wanted to and then / Remembered why I want to never’
Poetry by Shane McCrae, shortlisted for Cain Named the Animal.
‘Would / the apple be concerned / if I said it was not an apple’
Poems by Padraig Regan, from Some Integrity, shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection.
Tania James’s books include the story collection Aerogrammes and the novel The Tusk that Did the Damage. She has been a fellow of Ragdale, MacDowell, the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Fulbright Program. She teaches in the MFA program at George Mason University and lives in Washington DC.
More about the author →‘Write the story that unsettles and excites you, that keeps you coming back to your desk.’
‘The self is the work of art. Criticism puts that self in the service of other art.’
The authors discuss the multiplicity of the self, the idea of necessity, and how to work with what you lack.
‘Careful when you turn your eyes towards someone, you allow them the chance to turn theirs on you.’
Tice Cin on her debut novel Keeping the House.
‘There was no one around that day, so we decided to put on our bikini tops for the first time.’
An extract from Andrea Abreu’s debut novel. Translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches.
‘I had hundreds of nudes stored in my phone, but I’d never sent them to anyone.’
An excerpt from Lillian Fishman’s new novel.
‘woman is basically meant / to be a residential complex / all the same / all plastered over / just in different colors’
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