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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.
Don DeLillo is the author of more than fifteen novels, as well as plays, essays and short fiction. His novels include White Noise which won the 1985 National Book Award, Mao II which won the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award and most recently Zero K. He was awarded the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the 2015 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
More about the author →‘From a series of linked couples they become one continuous wave, larger all the time.’
‘The stories are representative of one slice of mind. The novels are mind, body, day and night, and what I ate for lunch.’
Don DeLillo and Paul Auster discuss their work in Granta 117: Horror, ‘impoverished characters’ and living in and writing about New York.
‘She lay in a kind of timeless drift, a mindwork spiral, carried on half-formed thoughts. She passed into a false sleep and then was listening again. She opened her eyes.’
‘Spending time in a place in which you have no personal stake breeds a peculiar kind of contemplativeness.’
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