Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal The Yak Dilemma Makina Books, £10 Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal’s debut collection, The Yak Dilemma, is composed of odes to – and eulogies for – landscapes: she is …
Embracing Vulnerability: Lola Olufemi reads an exciting debut collection
Sarah Lasoye Fovea / Ages Ago Hajar Press £10 The problem with the passage of time is that we can never see beyond the moment we occupy. Our desires and …
A Strategy of Response: Degna Stone reads a work about race, power and the ethics of conversation
Claudia Rankine Just Us: An American Conversation Allen Lane £25.00 The epigraph to Just Us, the third instalment of Claudia Rankine’s clinical exploration of the US in the context of race, …
Unreasonable Dreams: Theresa Lola talks to Major Jackson about the pursuit of joy
TL: Hi Major! I’d like to start off by asking, if poetry is a lamp that is present as we search for truth, what is one truth you keep rediscovering …
Shouldn’t we all be quitters?
To accompany this exclusive extract from John Ashbery’s Parallel Movement of the Hands, Dai George talks to the book’s editor, Emily Skillings DG: I’d like to start by thanking you, on behalf of …
I Wake With His Name On My Tongue, by Fred D’Aguiar
excerpted from Year of Plagues: A 2020 Memoir (HarperCollins, 2021) George Floyd, I add your name to a long and growing list of those killed by the police, though no less of …
Barca Nostra, 19 December 2019
by Olivia Elias Their report cards pinned to their chests will not have saved them pathetic passports barely good enough to make paper balls loaded dice error message this world …
Lasantha Wickrematunge
by Vidyan Ravinthiran Author’s note: The Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of The Sunday Leader, was likely assassinated. He wrote an editorial that, published after his death, stirringly accused his …
Spleen
by Nuzhat Bukhari The native’s muscles are always tensed . . . ready . . . – Frantz Fanon Almost all her life had been a slow war. Even between sheets …
Twelve Million
by Taher Adel The letter ح does not exist in any other language, it’s pronounced as h but imagine your lungs are struggling for breath, is that why hub is the most common word for love? because …
Editorial by André Naffis-Sahely, Issue 99
I am a citizen of the world, and therefore, according to some, a citizen of nowhere. Having been forced to leave the United Arab Emirates at the age of eighteen, …
