i mixed with the streets ripped from your roots a rose bud no longer the road is shortened, one small bud with my yearnings sunk i’m a tea a little bit blood red, a lesser lover mother come wrap my sprouting shoots, pick me up tuck me into the house steep me on the window […]
Johny Pitts’ splendid reportage manages to be both engaging and disturbing. He makes contact with black Europeans in several major cities and in Afropean recounts their experiences, often in their own words. A flavour of the author: ‘Labels are invariably problematic … but at their best they c
‘And we agreed, Mam and me to share The Blue Book of Nebo. She’ll write about the olden days and The End, and I’ll write about now, about how we live. And we’ve agreed not to read what the other has written, just in case. In case of what, I’m not sure.’ Fourteen-year-old
This brilliant short novel by Sara Mesa primarily takes place among the hedges where a thirteen-year-old girl, who we only know as Soon, finds refuge from school. Each day she settles in the hedges and wiles away the school day unnoticed, unobserved and alone. Soon is a shy and lonely girl who is in
L’anomalie first came onto my radar back in late summer 2020, when Hervé Le Tellier’s logic-defying tale of a transatlantic flight that is duplicated during a freak storm – crew and passengers included – set literary langues and pulses aflutter as one of the most singular titles among franc
The Daughter of the City: Steps of Istanbul by Nurduran Duman I learned the loves of cities get knotted into breakups at the estuary so now when I come to Beyoğlu I keep an old child in my pack (from the poem “City Steps” by Nurduran Duman, trans. Andrew Wessels) Some poets are synonymous
