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Into the Wild: Notes on a Tragic Return to Nature
In September of 1992 Chris McCandless was found dead in an abandoned bus in Denali National Park, Alaska. Sean Penn’s Into the...
Max Knowles
Mar 25, 20249 min read


The Alchemy of Translation: In Conversation with Rosie Eyre
Earlier this month, I caught up with Rosie Eyre. Having studied French and Spanish at Cambridge University, Rosie then went on to take a...
Tom Taylor
Mar 20, 20249 min read


Ukrainian Requiem: Olha Kobylianska’s Pioneering Modernism
The following is a translation of the dramatic conclusion to Olha Kobylianska’s 1894 novella Valse mélancolique. Kobylianska was born in...
Jasper Maughan
Jan 8, 20248 min read


Kyiv’s Magnolias
The Botanical Garden in Kyiv has beautiful magnolias. They would be in bloom about this time of year, unfolding to face the threatening...
Phoebe Page
May 29, 20225 min read


Mid-October
Here comes the cosmic hour to quiet, and listen to hold my heart by my hand lead it down the cobblestones and each dip of the alleyway...
Tiffany Tsoi
Jan 4, 20221 min read


The Sky Has a Body
"The sky has a body—it blushes, coughs
with smoke..."
Serena Alagappan
Jul 1, 20211 min read


So Long, Idalou!
"We’re driving down Cinderella Hill when your knuckles start bleeding. The wisteria is in bloom..."
Lexi Covalsen
May 11, 20212 min read


On Jesus Green
"the river looked like worked glass today
with a solid surface two inches down
so that, if you wanted, you could walk along it..."
Kate Granlund
May 7, 20211 min read


Elegy (Ash Trees)
"Just above the river, there is an ash plantation where the trees stand in a perfect grid formation and are dying..."
Ben Philipps
May 4, 20210 min read


nothing - but this
"the world falters -a graceless stutter-
and dissolves..."
Anna Chandler de Waal
May 1, 20211 min read


the vortex man
"it’s like this: you know the guy
rides his bike round the centre of cam all day
all like speaker in a plastic bag..."
Izzie Glover
Apr 26, 20211 min read


Metaphors
"I suddenly remember that last year my father
planted three saplings in his garden, each one
standing for one of his three sons..."
Joshua Clayton
Apr 22, 20211 min read


There's an angel in my wing mirror
"I know the A1. I know it for its 400 miles, through fen, fell and forth, a tarmac snake..."
Jacob Whitehead
Apr 16, 20212 min read


意識流
"Where can we begin but a lack of clarity?..."
Suining Sim
Mar 25, 20216 min read


holes
"dad,
i follow your footsteps through the fen,
dragging past the cotton grass,
slipping on the scree..."
Sophie Sleeman
Feb 8, 20212 min read

Mrs Dalloway's Best Nightmare
"I am Hostess, I am Divine Feminine
for just One night. The clock carves out its cold rhythm, the evening air reeks of it..."
Juliette Odolant
Jan 27, 20212 min read

Still Life
"In the room they come to go, looking
like cave paintings
gone hunting for the Leonardo..."
Emily Swettenham
Jan 13, 20210 min read
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