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Autumn 2022 • Issue 103
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Online ExclusiveCategory: Reviews
Roadmaps to Possibility
Chrissy Williams on three books whose formal experimentations offer innovative frameworks for exploring identity and connection
Chrissy Williams
The first poem in any collection is perhaps the most important. It establishes the relationship with the reader, choosing whether to hold their hand or push them out the window. I think that’s especially true when setting forth an unconventional [...] -
Category: Interviews
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer, and artist. Her debut pamphlet, Girl B, was published by the African Poetry Book Fund in 2017. Shortly following the publication of her debut collection, Quiet (Faber & Faber, 2022), she sat down with our Reviews Editor Isabelle Baafi to talk about the complexities of language, and the act of creating spaces for re-imagining and reclaiming.
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Category: Reviews
Seeing is Believing
David Wheatley on how two poets explore pastoral imaginations, the life of the senses and the language of faith
David Wheatley
A reader of J. M. Synge or the Blasket Island writers of the early twentieth century cannot help but notice how much closer life in the West of Ireland seemed to the American east coast than to Dublin. A contemporary [...] -
Category: Editorials
Treacherous Foundations
Isabelle Baafi
Earlier this year, I moved house for the first time in decades, and one day, after several weeks, I noticed a small crack in one of the top corners of my bedroom, about the width of a hair and about [...]