COVID: Lockdown Stories (2020-2021)
Lockdown Stories
by Elif Soyler – an autobiographical piece Right before lockdown, I heard an old song for the first time. It was Carole King’s Bitter with the Sweet from Rhymes and Reasons, released in 1972. Those last few days were tentatively spent wandering around the emptying streets of Norwich. I admired the last of the magnolia… continue reading »
Read MoreInvisible London (2017-2019)
Surface Shoots & Sucker Roots, for Claire Chatelet
From the life of Claire Chatelet By Naida Redgrave — ‘I’m warning you, I jump from subject to subject. I’ve got a form of dyslexia. I’ll take you somewhere, then I’ll loop back and forth. The problem is, I find it very difficult to find salient points. I view everything as equally interesting and important.’… continue reading »
Read MoreStories Against Loneliness (2016)
Jambo, by Stevie Kilgour
London, November 2016. Allow me to show you the kind of situation that I felt really mattered in my life when I was a young adult. Looking back I now realise how insignificant that and many similar situations were. They were mere inconveniences and in the grand scheme of things – they really didn’t matter…. continue reading »
Read MoreEastLife (2014-2015)
Before Getting Out, by Martin Clarke
They took to the bed, bred, three weeks: never bled. It doesn’t look good on you the stepfathers said. They wanted me dead. After the birth the medical notes read: Promote good mothering Promote good mothering … continue reading »
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