reminds me of the aging Genji
who, to rid himself of Princess Tamakazura,
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‘nothing like an ancient corridor where a / woman is stripped of resistance.’
reminds me of the aging Genji
who, to rid himself of Princess Tamakazura,
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‘I alone know a running stream
that is recovery partly and dim sweat
of a day-fever’
A poem by Rowan Evans.
‘Humour is a thread we hang onto. It punctures through the fog of guilt.’
Momtaza Mehri in conversation with Warsan Shire.
‘Something shifted in me that night. A small voice in my head said, maybe you can make a way for yourself as a poet here, too.’
Mary Jean Chan in conversation with Andrew McMillan.
‘There was to be an exhibition. There were lots of pictures like his, apparently – of waiters, pastry cooks, valets, bellboys.’
An essay by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 159: What Do You See?
‘I have started to see that nothing is itself’
A poem by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While.
Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine poetry collections, including The Unbearable Heart, The Artist's Daughter, The Narrow Road to the Interior and Brain Fever, forthcoming in October. She is a distinguished professor in the MFA programme in creative writing and literary translation at Queens College, City University of New York.
More about the author →‘The lemon shark / who returns to the same mangrove-lined shallows / every year to give birth.’
‘Certainly the tide or the dog striding along the sluff of seaweed, / this afternoon – brown, light green, black green, white and red.’
‘Words only point to experience, they can’t replace it.’
Vanessa Onwuemezi and Colin Herd discuss UFOs, relation, and the search for an inner sense of home.
‘How do we perform our politics, our outrage and our grievances when we are among a group?’
Anthony Anaxagorou talks about his collection Heritage Aesthetics.
New fiction from Rafael Frumkin, featuring psychiatrists brandishing DSM–5, delusions, transference and the menacing voice of Alex Trebek.
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