My long and ambivalent relationship with the Albert Memorial started soon after I was brought...
My long and ambivalent relationship with the Albert Memorial started soon after I was brought as a child to London from Kingston, Jamaica. I was old enough to possess fragments of memory from another place, young enough to be wide open to the influences of my new city. We lived in Paddington in the …
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
‘As I stood in front of the immigration officer, I was already worrying about my answers to the questions he might ask’.
I come from a generation which still, fifty-odd years on, looks up and once in a while thinks, 'Good, one of ours.'
‘There had been an unbelievable amount of talk about the weather, not to mention the end of the world and so on’.
My long and ambivalent relationship with the Albert Memorial started soon after I was brought...
‘The book is in my studio and I am about to go out and buy fresh glue’.
