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The memory built me around it.An abandoned trail. A forest with no sky.I was both the wood of the axe and the wood of the tree.A cat was

Everything you do you do precisely.The shine, cut off, heat, double down, your famous five-move come back,the false finish, and then the finish. John, you leave us in

The farm was in one of the fourteen green-purple wet deserts, in a dent six miles wide with its shoulders covered in scree and a rainy season that

First, a boy was meant to stop following him mama, then him papa, then at around fourteen him become him own man – that’s how Ras Levi say

First, a boy was meant to stop following him mama, then him papa, then at around fourteen him become him own man – that’s how Ras Levi say

June 1946, Nantucket, Massachusetts Tennessee Williams is dying. He’s standing on a pier on Nantucket Island, eyeing the overcast sky, exhausted and beset with anxieties. The past few

June 1946, Nantucket, Massachusetts Tennessee Williams is dying. He’s standing on a pier on Nantucket Island, eyeing the overcast sky, exhausted and beset with anxieties. The past few

In July 1930, Sylvia Townsend Warner took an early train to Dorchester and a taxi to Chaldon to check on the progress of Miss Green, the small cottage

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the poet and critic Declan Ryan. His debut collection of poems, Crisis Actor, was published in 2023. We