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The Cottage
Isabelle Baafi
‘The scarlet stained my palm – / whether the blood of the berry or of the bird, / I couldn’t tell.’
A poem by Isabelle Baafi.
The Borrowed Hills
Scott Preston
‘The farm was in one of the fourteen green-purple wet deserts, in a dent six miles wide with its shoulders covered in scree and a rainy season that lasts twelve months a year.’
An extract from The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston.
Fast by the Horns
Moses McKenzie
‘First, a boy was meant to stop following him mama, then him papa, then at around fourteen him become him own man – that’s how Ras Levi say life was suppose to work.’
An extract from Fast by the Horns by Moses McKenzie.
Strange Relations
Ralf Webb
‘For both writers, this is an essential truth in their work. It’s also an essential truth in their lives: they are both queer, and live openly as such.’
Ralf Webb on the friendship between Tennesse Williams and Carson McCullers.
In Conversation: Will Ashon and Greg Milner
Will Ashon & Greg Milner
‘The techniques of hip-hop are always evolving – does that make it an inherently unstable technology, and is that where much of its aesthetic excitement derives from?’
