It’s too late now to start collecting football shirts,/bringing them back from trips abroad as souvenirs:
It’s too late now to start collecting football shirts,
bringing them back from trips abroad as souvenirs:
the sun-struck, God-given green and gold of Brazil;
Germany’s bold, no-nonsense, trademark monochrome;
the loud red of ‘emerging nation’ South Korea;
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
‘The beasts of the forest drove me out. / The villagers barred their doors. / The gods turned the page.’
An unpublished letter by Ted Hughes, introduced by Simon Armitage. ‘It’s reassuring to see a spelling mistake (‘style’ for stile), and I love the maps.’
‘I live on the border, between two states. I've lived here all my life, just about, and I know this place like the back of my hand’.
‘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.
