Onomatopoeia Poem
By Marisol Hernández


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‘Everything was okay until Marisol accidentally broke a china cup with a rose on it that her stepmother had brought with her from DR.’
Onomatopoeia Poem
By Marisol Hernández
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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.
Nell Freudenberger is the author of a novel, The Dissident, and Lucky Girls, a collection of stories both published by Picador in the UK and the Ecco Press in the US. She was one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists in 2007. She lives in New York.
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Americans, speaking of foreign lands, often say, 'It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.'
‘When I was seven, I sat down to draw God. God wore a pirate shirt, purple harem pants and a red fez.’
‘He hated the idea of learning words from a list; it was like taking vitamin supplements in place of eating.’
‘The idea of romantic love for young people is a constructed one.’
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