‘The Chorus’ and ‘My Daughter’, poems from ‘The Back-To-Back Classics: Within the Wooden O’, recipient of UEA’s 2016 Malcolm Bradbury Prize — We must consider it as a personified reflection on the action which is going on; the incorporation into the representation itself of the sentiments of the poet, as the spokes[person] of the […]
Archives for 2016
The Hazel Twig and the Olive Tree: Presence, absence, and a lost story of Jorge Luis Borges
[1] Irving Samuelson, University of Texas, Austin In January 1935, Jorge Luis Borges lost his job as literary editor of the Saturday supplement of Buenos Aires’ mass-market daily newspaper, Crítica.[2] One month after his departure, the supplement published a piece by Herbert Lock, no longer extant, but apparently retelling the story of the adulterous lovers […]
The Sex Lives Of English Women by Wendy Jones
7-7-16 The Sex Lives Of English Women: Intimate Questions and Unexpected Answers is the new book by UEA alumna Wendy Jones and is published today by Serpent’s Tail. Wendy graduated with an MA in Life Writing at UEA in 2000 and subsequently gained a PhD from Goldsmiths in Creative Writing. She published her first book, […]
Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan
7-7-16 Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan is the fourth novel by UEA alumna Ruth Gilligan and is published by Atlantic Books today. It will be published by Tin House Books in the US in January. Ruth was born in Dublin in 1988 and studied at Cambridge and Yale before coming to UEA. She graduated from […]
Kim Sherwood wins Bath Novel Award
7-7-16 Testament, the debut novel by UEA alumna Kim Sherwood, has won this year’s Bath Novel Award, a competition open to writers of any nationality who have yet to be traditionally published. Kim (pictured) grew up in Camden and graduated from the BA in Literature with Creative Writing at UEA in 2011 and from the MA in […]
“Through Which We Can Enter”
A two-part creative-critical piece on photocopying, decay, and William Basinski’s ‘The Disintegration Loops’
AT LOUISA BAY
The cushioned heels of a morning jogger push the embers of last night’s bonfire deeper into the sand. The charred black driftwood, edged in white ash, crumbles when touched. I can see the fag butts curled like sleeping dogs at the bottom of the fire pit; the ring pulls from beer cans shine in the […]
A NOTE ON GRANDMA’S FRIDGE
Open the curtains and let some light in. Spread the table cloth across the kitchen. Tell her to meet me at the station. Make sure she has fresh food in, last time she just had jam and bacon. Open the curtains and let some light in. Next Tuesday I’m taking her to London to see […]
The Nail
The nail protruded from the wall like a middle finger from a fist. And as we bulged through the corridor, textbooks stretching the skin of our drawstring bags, the boy who had less flesh than all of us thin as a protractor misjudged his angles and fell – high fiving the nail.
Katharine Norbury shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize
1-7-16 The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury has been included in the shortlist for the 2016 Wainwright Prize, which celebrates the best writing on the outdoors, nature and UK-based travel writing. The prize is sponsored by Wainwright Golden Beer and is awarded in association with The National Trust and selected with the […]