a conversation with/in youth
Illustration by Sophie Kenyon I wish to be young again, wishing to be old. Telling my younger self answers to questions I long to hold… ...
Illustration by Sophie Kenyon I wish to be young again, wishing to be old. Telling my younger self answers to questions I long to hold… ...
Illustration: Sophie Kenyon From time to time, a novelist jumps from the shelf with a new, invigorating voice that makes reading seem...
Image: Manvir Dobb Holden Caulfield, a self-described “absent-minded”, “yellow guy” and a “terrific liar”, has been expelled from another...
Illustration: Sarah Jackman Classic and contemporary Chinese and Japanese theatre negotiates gender liminality. Certain characters –...
Illustration by Charlotte Hattrell An imagined place -Glass shimmering above clouds- Only then it fades. Gone, too fast, too soon. You...
Image: Razvan Narcis Ticu via Unsplash Amy Liptrot’s evocative memoir, The Outrun, tells the story of the author’s powerful rediscovery...
Illustration by Alex Abadjieva It's no secret that English Literature curricula are a haven for books written by...
Illustration by Charlotte Hattrell Age is but a number as the old saying goes, it is meant to bring some solace when the grey hair starts...
Illustration by Anna Russell The Feel of baked earth Of ice shattered off - Glass - no time to thaw - to leak Or dried branches that...
Image: Manvir Dobb The Fall of the House of Usher stands proud as one of Poe’s most famous, detailed and macabre pieces of fiction. First...
Image: Megan Kenyon Now more than ever, with the recent murder of George Floyd, and so many other victims of systemic racism, Reni...
Illustration by Charlotte Hattrell ‘isolation.’ Am I boring you? Trees sigh in footsteps’ absence Nature’s smile anew.
Image: Miranda Vandergriff via Unsplash Harry Vavasour on why, while the solitude of lockdown offers a unique chance to work through the...
Illustration by Anna Russell Now more than ever, I have been particularly conscious of a need to document; to keep track of these...
Image: Visuals via Unsplash When it was all over, each breath was like a eulogy, a remembering. Holding hands Weighed a thousand tonnes....
Illustration: Alex Abadjieva Never in my life have I thought about walking as much as in the past two months. Its limits, not walking and...
Image: Alex Abadjieva On the East coast of the Mediterranean Sea, c.450-200BCE, an elderly Hebrew sage ponders over the meaning of life....