Two poems from sikfan glaschu, the debut poetry collection by UEA alumnus Sean Wai Keung, published by Verve Press in April 2021 lanzhou noodle the thing about places where you can see into the cooking area / kitchen is that you really can see it all – the amount of physical effort that every single […]
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The Imposter
An extract from Anna Wharton’s debut novel, The Imposter, published by Mantle on 1 April, 2021 Out in the Fens the roads are long and straight. There’s often a camber each side which slopes into a grassy bank and then further still into a dyke, one side or the other, occasionally both. Through the windscreen […]
Common Ground
Common Ground is the debut novel by UEA alumna Naomi Ishiguro and is published by Tinder Press on 25 March 2021. This is an extract from the first chapter: Goshawk Common, Newford, Surrey. Not the most remark- able expanse of open country, scrubby grass and tumbling hillside in the south of England, just as […]
The Last House On Needless Street
The Last House on Needless Street is the third novel by UEA alumna Catriona Ward and is published by Viper Books on 18 March 2021. This is the first chapter. Ted Bannerman Today is the anniversary of Little Girl With Popsicle. It happened by the lake, eleven years ago – she was there, and […]
The Muslim Problem
The Muslim Problem: Why We’re Wrong About Islam And Why It Matters is the first book by UEA writer Tawseef Khan and is published by Atlantic Books on 4 March 2021. The following is taken from the Introduction. I was fourteen years old when, during one lunch break in high school, I burst into […]
Two poems from Lumen
Lumen is Tiffany Atkinson’s fourth collection of poetry and is published by Bloodaxe Books in February 2021 Hymn Red dog shitting plants his four stars in the grass and up goes the tent of himself his tail pegged out his eyelids fine and private. And I think ……………..so that’s how we do all things with […]
Little Gods
An extract from Little Gods by Meng Jin, published by Pushkin Press on Feb 25, 2021 In those days I found myself thinking often of the first time I had seen Su Lan, when she moved into the neighborhood a little less than a year before. She and her husband were strange newcomers—two intellectuals from […]
Nightshift
An extract from Kiare Ladner’s first novel, Nightshift, published by Picador on 18 February 2021 in the UK and by Custom House in Winter 2022 in the US. 1 At its peak my obsession with her was like a form of self-harm: a private source of pain and comfort. When I found the ring box […]
Twyford Rising, Land and Resistance
In the spring of 1992, Helen Beynon joined the protests against the construction of the M3 motorway through Twyford Down, a chalk hill in Hampshire England. This was the first of a wave of road protests that swept across the country in the 1990s and laid the foundation for the modern environmental movement, from campaigns […]
Foreword & Introduction to the MA in Literary Translation Anthology
Foreword by Cecilia Rossi Displacements What is the relationship between translation and place? Perhaps the most widely quoted definition of translation, especially when considering its etymology, is the one that implies a change of place, a movement across from one place to another, a carrying across of something from one point to another. But we […]
