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...
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Tom Taylor
Mar 209 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...
Jasper Maughan
Jan 88 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...
Phoebe Page
May 29, 20225 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...
Tiffany Tsoi
Jan 4, 20221 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...
Serena Alagappan
Jul 1, 20211 min read
The Sky Has a Body
"The sky has a body—it blushes, coughs
with smoke..."
Lexi Covalsen
May 11, 20212 min read
So Long, Idalou!
"We’re driving down Cinderella Hill when your knuckles start bleeding. The wisteria is in bloom..."
Kate Granlund
May 7, 20211 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..."
Ben Philipps
May 4, 20210 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..."
Anna Chandler de Waal
May 1, 20211 min read
nothing - but this
"the world falters -a graceless stutter-
and dissolves..."
Izzie Glover
Apr 25, 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..."
Joshua Clayton
Apr 22, 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..."
Jacob Whitehead
Apr 16, 20212 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..."
Suining Sim
Mar 25, 20216 min read
意識流
"Where can we begin but a lack of clarity?..."
Sophie Sleeman
Feb 8, 20212 min read
holes
"dad,
i follow your footsteps through the fen,
dragging past the cotton grass,
slipping on the scree..."
Juliette Odolant
Jan 27, 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..."
Emily Swettenham
Jan 13, 20210 min read
Still Life
"In the room they come to go, looking
like cave paintings
gone hunting for the Leonardo..."
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