Moon is always there
It hides in the wings during the day
It enters at night
Wearing false, borrowed light
Image © Eduard Lefler
Moon is always there
It hides in the wings during the day
It enters at night
Wearing false, borrowed light
Image © Eduard Lefler
‘Feelings can be very obscure but numbers never lie.’
Kevin Brazil on metrics, obsession and fitness.
‘An intense workout is an ecstasy of punishment packaged as self-improvement.’
Mary Wellesley on exercise, ritual and Barry’s Bootcamp.
‘I was not good at sports because I would not do sports because I did not have the body for sports because I would not do sports.’
Saba Sams on girlhood, embodiment and avoiding sports.
‘Following United rarely brings me any great joy and most often it depresses me. If I could disengage, I would.’
Jonny Thakkar on Manchester United.
‘I deployed my body against an opponent like a blunt and effective instrument.’
John Patrick McHugh on playing Gaelic football.
Bernadette Van-Huy is one of the co-founders of the artist group Bernadette Corporation. She is currently making a feature film.
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Poetry by Audun Mortensen.
‘The scarlet stained my palm – / whether the blood of the berry or of the bird, / I couldn’t tell.’
A poem by Isabelle Baafi.
‘There can be any number of significant others in a life. Some we know for a long time; others are meteoric: we may see them only once.’
The editor introduces the issue.
‘Do they strike people as a strange couple? He does not know, does not care.’
Fiction by J.M. Coetzee.
‘With us in the nursing home lives the ancient daughter of the former mayor’
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