‘The world, we too often forget, has no investment or interest in the triumph of Homo sapiens’
By a stroke of good luck I inhabit a remarkable place, a wooded bench above the upper McKenzie, a whitewater river in western Oregon. It is country for which gentrification is still a long way off. On the other side of the river, the mountains carry old-growth forest steeply up to the sky—it is un…
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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.
‘What we’re about to see is greater than the thing you’re running from.’
‘The effort to know a place deeply is, ultimately, an expression of the human desire to belong, to fit somewhere.’
‘Motherhood is this chapter, / we all love a mother, / disastrous as it is.’
Poetry by K Patrick.
‘“Dolphin safe” labels on our tins are reckoned among marine scientists to mean next to nothing.’
Katherine Rundell on tuna and extinction speculation.
‘create a national holiday in your namelessness, in my head.’
Poems from the author’s debut collection Quiet.
‘Useless chaos is what fiction is about.’
