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The many hats of Patrick Marber
"Marber is currently wearing his director hat..."
Ben Francis
Aug 16, 20217 min read


The Sky Has a Body
"The sky has a body—it blushes, coughs
with smoke..."
Serena Alagappan
Jul 1, 20211 min read


Hozier's Heresies
"Hozier disobeys and disrupts orthodoxy through its own language..."
Matilda Sidel
Jun 21, 20217 min read


(box) unhinged
"found this old dress that madness of velvet overdraft..."
J. Odolant
May 25, 20212 min read


Disposable photos: transience and analogue rituals
"with every ‘revolt against mourning’, every disposable camera flash, every giddy notes app paragraph, we keep Larkin’s prophecy true..."
Betty Townley
May 20, 20215 min read


Eat the Pear!
"The mathematician, economist, and philosopher Ramsey wrote once that ‘what we can’t say, we can’t say, and we can’t whistle it either'..."
Ben Philipps
May 17, 20218 min read


So Long, Idalou!
"We’re driving down Cinderella Hill when your knuckles start bleeding. The wisteria is in bloom..."
Lexi Covalsen
May 11, 20212 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..."
Kate Granlund
May 7, 20211 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..."
Ben Philipps
May 4, 20210 min read


nothing - but this
"the world falters -a graceless stutter-
and dissolves..."
Anna Chandler de Waal
May 1, 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..."
Izzie Glover
Apr 26, 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..."
Joshua Clayton
Apr 22, 20211 min read


意識流
"Where can we begin but a lack of clarity?..."
Suining Sim
Mar 25, 20216 min read


‘Am I trying to disappear?’: Self-Fashioning in the Works of Francesca Woodman and Phoebe Stuckes
"A 1940s movie star glows against a black background. Her hair is loose around her shoulders but still holds the curve of..."
Francesca Weekes
Mar 23, 20218 min read


Living in a Fairy Tale World
"At first, the Hansel and Gretel of my childhood stay firmly on the beaten track..."
Karolina Filova
Mar 6, 20216 min read


The Traveller in Residence: Maeve Brennan's New York
"An Irishwoman, two Americans, and five French teenagers walk into a bar, sit at separate tables, eat, and leave..."
Malin Hay
Mar 3, 20217 min read


The Validity of the Merger: Notes on Rothko in Isolation
"Before he began to create the large-scale geometric ‘colour fields’ for which he’s best known, Mark Rothko tried out a variety of styles.."
Ben Philipps
Feb 11, 20216 min read


holes
"dad,
i follow your footsteps through the fen,
dragging past the cotton grass,
slipping on the scree..."
Sophie Sleeman
Feb 8, 20212 min read
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