[A slightly modified version of this chapter will appear in Steve Mentz, Ocean (London: Bloomsbury, 2020)] By Steve Mentz The Mountain rears itself high, aloof and majestic. He sees and knows. Nothing is… Continue reading
Editors Rebecca DeWald and Samuel Tongue were invited to be “bloggers-in-residence” at Scotland’s International Poetry Festival StAnza in St Andrews, which took place from 4–8 March 2020. By Rebecca DeWald and Samuel Tongue Only… Continue reading
I am a Rohingya: Poetry from the Camps and Beyond. Edited by James Byrne and Shehzar Doja (Arc Publications, 2019) Review Essay by Alycia Pirmohamed What lives in the silences between the muezzin’s recitation of the… Continue reading
By Grazia Ietto Gillies The adaptation ‘Oh! Le aste, le aste’. My reaction is immediate.[1] The show brought it all back. On screen is a page of the school workbook of six-year old… Continue reading
Refugee Tales III (ed. David Herd and Anna Pincus) is published 11th July 2019 by Comma Press. Refugee Tales is an outreach project of Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, and all proceeds from the… Continue reading
ECOCRITICISM NOW: The essays, reviews, and poetry collected in this thread trace responses to the interlinked terms nature, ecology, and ecocriticism, all of which have come to occupy increasingly important roles in a… Continue reading
By Tom White When Amber Rudd finally resigned as Home Secretary during the Windrush scandal, Theresa May was quick to maintain that she had gone not because of the “hostile environment” policy itself,… Continue reading
ECOCRITICISM NOW: The essays, reviews, and poetry collected in this thread trace responses to the interlinked terms nature, ecology, and ecocriticism, all of which have come to occupy increasingly important roles in a… Continue reading
This essay is part of our Threat Levels series. In 2006, the UK passed from a seemingly more casual and non-specific BIKINI state to a more serious state of threat, varying from substantial to critical. The reference to… Continue reading
This essay is part of our Threat Levels series. In 2006, the UK passed from a seemingly more casual and non-specific BIKINI state to a more serious state of threat, varying from substantial to critical. The… Continue reading
