At Capernaum, boats
“This is the Port of the boat people/ After Dessalines and Duvalier, HIV and cholera/ After tornado and tremblor…” Weekend poem, to mark the anniversary of the Haitian earthquake, by John Robert Lee.
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Around the Literary World in 80 Words (#17)
Jacob Silkstone tours the literary world, 80 words at a time. Featuring offended Canadians, Kim Jong Il’s literary criticism, and Twitter’s ‘bats of darkness’.
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Something Wicked
“The rest of it is what she’s come to expect from the popular Antiguan soca band… Except this one is less playful and more aggressive. ‘Kick een she back door’ the singer sings with glee, and Essie sings along.” Story of the Week (December 10), by Joanne C. Hillhouse.
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trickery
“i’ve taken to unpicking mirrors…/ i’ve stuffed your tourist dolls/ into the magician’s hat.” Poem of the Week (January 7), by Iain Britton.
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Around the Literary World in 80 Words (#16)
Jacob Silkstone rounds up the news from around the literary world, 80 words at a time. Featuring Camus, the human race serving machines, and ornithologist James Bond.
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A prayer is a lonely call
“I picked up the Dua book lying on my table. It had an ugly purple cover with the silhouette of a Niqab wearing woman on it that resembled a dementor or a wraith more than your average Muslimah.” Story of the Week (January 3), by Faisal Pakkali.
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Under The Birch Trees
“Steinn finds a promising spot up in the right hand corner of the sky; he inserts the knife very carefully into a bank of white clouds.” Story of the Week (December 27), by Ragna Sigurðardóttir. Translated from Icelandic by Sarah Bowen.
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The Breach
“Above and behind lay the danger. The sky sawn open by planes dropping huge exploding eggs, bullets lashed into screams…” Story of the Week (December 20), by Minoli Salgado
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Author of the Month: Guðrún Eva MÃnervudóttir
“Sometimes I think my characters live ready-made in my psyche, the way Jung described our personality — that it is made up of hundreds of people, like a huge theatre.” Guðrún Eva MÃnervudóttir, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month, talks to Marcus Nicholls.
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Stories from St. Lucia
“Then the boy’s voice, rough-edged, moving into wailing. This came into the man’s guts, it seemed.” As part of a special feature to mark St. Lucia’s national day, two stories by John Robert Lee.
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