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‘It is obvious now that we can have no control over our journey, or its end.’
It comes back in different ways. But this more than any other.
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‘The flirtations of insects and plants are furtive, hidden and often so brief that if you literally blink you might miss what exactly is going on.’
Dino J. Martins on moths and orchids, from Granta 153: Second Nature.
‘The origin of the dysfunctional family: spores. / Friend or foe? True fern or ally?’
Poems by Sylvia Legris, author of Garden Physic.
‘And the trees were safely tucked in. Their roots were rallying in the soil, in this coil. Would the woman also take a turn for the better in her last decade?’
Three stories by Diane Williams.
‘walking alone down a country road – / distracted by the slightly annoying and toxic / first green of spring, eyes overflowing’
A poem by Emily Skillings.
‘Whatever the aftermath, you won’t see the city again except through the agency of absence, recalling this semi-emptiness, this viral uncertainty.’
From 2020: China Miéville on the UK government’s response to coronavirus.
Ross Raisin was born in Yorkshire. He has written two novels, Waterline and God’s Own Country.
More about the author →‘A few drivers had slowed to look up at the side of the coach as it circled the roundabout.’
‘Ducks are very sexual creatures. Domestic ducks, unlike wild ones, are polygamous.’
‘I was up at 5.30 this morning, to screaming, and it’s afternoon now and I’m covered in hummus and struggling to muster the energy to remove it from myself.’
Ross Raisin discusses how he evokes place and inhabits characters in his writing, the difference in his approaches to novels and short stories and his work on his forthcoming novel.
A selection of Granta contributors discuss the books they read in 2012.
‘His life, unexciting as it may have been so far, was still a detailed, complicated thing.’
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