draught

(adjacencies)
With a Cherry on Top
Octavia Bright

1.2.3

It was twilight or dawn, and I was looking at a painting. Or I was looking at my phone, which was showing me an impression of a painting, given the brightness was turned down low so as not to wake the baby. And of...

(detail)
My Grandmother’s Language Book
Elsa Court

1.2.3

I was a child of about seven or eight sitting beside my maternal grandmother Denise at the dining room table where we almost never dined, preferring the more relaxed atmosphere of the kitchen for Saturday lunches or...

(feature)
Riddles
Rachael Allen

1.2.2

When I teach the below poem by the Canadian poet Sylvia Legris, I’ll often remove the title and ask students to guess what the title of the poem could be. The first few lines are:

(portfolio)
Writ in Water: Like a Lagoon
The Early Poetics of Nanu del Cielo
Carol Mavor

1.2.2

Nanu del Cielo was born in 1957 in South Tropical Trail, a neighbourhood on Merritt Island, in Central Florida. Her childhood home faced the Indian River Lagoon near Cape Canaveral. On weekends, her father (and a number...

(adjacencies)
Haunting the Edges of Stories
Eley Williams

1.2.2

I just wanted a coffee, but who could help but stop and stare? The rats in the window appeared to be swinging on little wire trapezes. This was a misreading of the window display, of course, or a whimsical trick of...

(studio visit)
At the Bottom of
My Custom-Made CD Shelves
Owen Hatherley

1.2.2

When I am writing – and I almost always write at home, in my living room – I listen to CDs. Not to vinyl records, which are too active, with the tiresome need to turn over the platter every twenty minutes, and their...

(detail)
As the Crow Flies
Dawn Chan

1.1.2

It would seem odd for me to pick out just one detail in Laura Owens’s show at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York this past spring, if only because the whole show was a convergence of details, a breathtaking accumulation...

(studio visit)
Bhanu Kapil

1.1.2

I once met the writer Gail Scott in Vancouver. I’d fallen ill on the plane and was lying on the carpet at the back of the room, listening to her talk, scrawling down her words in a notebook. ‘The space between words is...

(studio visit)
Rosalind Nashashibi

1.1.1

The world exists as long as we believe in it. The image that is visible to our eyes is the one in which we believe. Large numbers of images do not exist due to the lack of believing in them. Sometimes, this lack is...

(feature)
Transatlantic Translation Anthology
Don Mee Choi

1.1.1

When I happen to mention to people that I translate contemporary Korean poets, I’m often asked which poets I translate into Korean. Am I to assume that they didn’t hear me right? Perhaps I didn’t speak loud enough? I’ve...

(feature)
Notes, Murmurations:
The Notebook as Form of Rime
Lisa Robertson

1.1.1

On 27 November 1799, while taking the night coach from Yorkshire to London, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, after fitful sleep, awoke at sunrise and watched a starling murmuration. As he observed the flock, he attempted a...

(adjacencies)
Flare!
Daisy Lafarge

1.1.1

‘Quitting is a disease,’ says Jordan, a 25-year-old ex-marine construction worker when his teammate Dawn has been vomiting for several hours after drinking from a boggy stream. He fears she will take the team’s flare...

(I wish I’d made)
Being Joachim Meyerhoff
Jen Calleja

1.1.1

Writers, even if writing a retelling of an old fable or myth, immerse themselves in the works of others to emerge with work inextricably linked to what has been read and connected with (or not) but new. I think I was...

(conversation)
Mark Manders

1.1.1

The March 1933 issue of La Nouvelle Revue Française contained an essay by the French writer Paul Valéry on his poem ‘Le Cimetière marin’ (The Graveyard by the Sea, 1922). It was here, within a rather lengthy sentence,...

(adjacencies)
Present Continuous
Francesca Wade

1.1.1

Anyone who’s spent time with Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2011) will know the feeling. Sitting rapt in the dark, mesmerised by the short snippets of film unfolding, one by one, on screen. The sudden sensation that one...

(detail)
1900
Mark Cousins

1.1.1

I know what could be said about this image – there are movie stars in it, for example, so you could start with that – but I don’t know what I will say.

(conversation)
Glenn Adamson

1.1.1

I first met Glenn Adamson when he supervised my PhD at the Royal College of Art more than a decade ago. By then he had already written Thinking Through Craft (2007), and would go on to publish widely, including The...

(portfolio)
On Bookmarks and Other Ruins
Christina Tudor-Sideri

1.1.1

There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture that holds within it the tension between one moment and the next. Not the...