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Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureJune 22, 2014

The Drugs Don’t Work

By Rowland Bagnall

Rowland Bagnall on ‘the art of not quite saying what you mean’ in Ben Lerner’s ‘Leaving the Atocha Station’.

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Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureJune 22, 2014

Round 1: Finland-Republic of Ireland

By Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Kat Soini

The eleventh match of our Poetry World Cup.

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Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureJune 21, 2014

Round 1: England-Russia

By Jon Stone, Valery Petrovskiy

Is there further World Cup misery in store for England today?

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Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureJune 20, 2014

Round 1: Denmark-Scotland

By Amalie Smith, Ryan Van Winkle

The ninth match of the Poetry World Cup.

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Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureJune 19, 2014

Round 1: Cyprus-Serbia

By Dušan Gojkov, Nora Nadjarian

Match eight in The Missing Slate’s Poetry World Cup.

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Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureJune 18, 2014

Round 1: China-Singapore

By Changming Yuan, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

A flavour of the Far East in the seventh match of the Poetry World Cup.

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Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureJune 17, 2014

Round 1: Canada-St. Lucia

By John Robert Lee, Ottilie Mulzet

A Caribbean-Canadian confrontation in our Poetry World Cup.

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Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureJune 16, 2014

Round 1: Bulgaria-Trinidad & Tobago

By Jacob Silkstone

The fifth match of The Missing Slate’s Poetry World Cup.

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Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureJune 15, 2014

Round 1: Botswana-Tunisia

By Jacob Silkstone

An all-African match between Botswana and Tunisia in our Poetry World Cup.

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MagazineJune 15, 2014

Overseer: Detention

By Jacob Silkstone

“…all the boys gathered in a room,/ unsettlingly quiet, half-asleep, making jets with homework-/ paper…”
By Vladimir Lucien.

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One last love letter...

April 24, 2021

It has taken us some time and patience to come to this decision. TMS would not have seen the success that it did without our readers and the tireless team that ran the magazine for the better part of eight years.

But… all good things must come to an end, especially when we look at the ever-expanding art and literary landscape in Pakistan, the country of the magazine’s birth.

We are amazed and proud of what the next generation of creators are working with, the themes they are featuring, and their inclusivity in the diversity of voices they are publishing. When TMS began, this was the world we envisioned…

Though the magazine has closed and our submissions shuttered, this website will remain open for the foreseeable future as an archive of the great work we published and the astounding collection of diverse voices we were privileged to feature.

If, however, someone is interested in picking up the baton, please email Maryam Piracha, the editor, at [email protected].

Farewell, fam! It’s been quite a ride.