Looking for the Bird-God
“Jorge stopped being Jorge the first day he went up to the roof.” New Voices writing competition runner-up, by Dan Micklethwaite.
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The Grave Rose
“If you have only a single rose to offer me/ Do not offer it/ As a tombstone of the future…” Poem of the Week (August 12), by Manash Bhattacharjee.
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“Who am I to praise you? When I was on my way to you the train went up in flames…” Story of the Week (August 8), by Zsuzsa Selyem. Translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.
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Poet of the Month: Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
“I like poetry best when its meaning is at its most fluid…” In our July Poet of the Month interview, Poetry World Cup winner Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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Excerpts from Kangarewe & Wittgenstein’s Whoopee Cushion
A selection of new work from Poetry World Cup winner Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé.
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The Wines of the Shakespeare Estate
“In wine there is truth…” Zsolt Láng’s ‘short story written in the form of wine labels’, translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.
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La Disparue
“The girl addressed as “you†in countless poems/ escapes. She’s sick of being told/ what she knows perfectly well…” Weekend poem, by Frederick Pollack.
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Reconsecrated
“We hunted down/ politeness with iced vodka/ and flew outside, where the night/ took your tongue and gave it to mine.” Poem of the Week (July 22), by Janet Lees.
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Pangolin/Lion
“…the grand horror of his head, stretching/ into the fang-house/ that clatters and clatters/ against this armoured morsel/ this shock of Pangolin…” Weekend poem, by James Coghill.
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Author of the Month: Fiona Inglis
“Everyone’s afraid of being ugly and ending up alone. It’s become a modern day mental plague.” Fiona Inglis, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month, talks to Umamah Wajid.
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