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Riddles
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:
issue one
(adjacencies)
Haunting the Edges of Stories
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
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...
(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...
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Transatlantic Translation Anthology
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...
(adjacencies)
Flare!
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
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...
(detail)
1900
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...