’Daniel Meadows has traced many of the people he photographed then, but this is of little interest to us‘.
In July 1973 I bought a 1948 double-decker Leyland Titan PDI bus for £360.20 from Barton Transport in Chilwell, Nottingham. (If you want to see it today, go to the Midland Bus and Transport Museum at Wythall near Birmingham where it has been fully restored.) I was twenty-one years old, fresh out of…
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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.
