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If My Darling from the Lions were a music album, ‘it be would be Whitney Houston does a grime inflected album, with special features from Rhianna, Stormzy, Skepta, David Bowie.’ Wasafiri Wonders with Rachel Long.
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If My Darling from the Lions were a music album, ‘it be would be Whitney Houston does a grime inflected album, with special features from Rhianna, Stormzy, Skepta, David Bowie.’ Wasafiri Wonders with Rachel Long.
‘Here, take my brain, each last lobe / one hundred billion empty neurons / firing, its shocks so blunt, my thoughts disrobed’ — a poem by Jennie Owen, contributor to Wasafiri 103.
Holly Fathi on finding British-Iranian literature—and on joining in on the conversation of what ‘British writing’ means in the 21st century.
LATEST ISSUE
Editorial The Unbearable Lightness of Whiteness
Interviews Cathy Park Hong; Alex Wheatle
Articles ‘Whitely’: Race and Lyric Subjectivity in Clare Pollard’s Poetry; Re-Reading Penelope Lively’s Oleander Jacaranda; Other White
Art Thinking Through Race in Bruce Nauman's Body Painting
Fiction Laure Baudot, Alicia Mietus, Lijia Zhang
Poetry Jennie Owen, Bibhu Padi, Desirée Seebaran, Jeremy Wikeley
Life-writing Claire Hynes, Ruby D. Jones
Review Essay Political and Planetary Panic: Penning Motherhood in Trump’s America
Reviews Claire Adam, Golden Child; Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, ed., Mother Country: Real
Stories of the Windrush Children; Hebe Uhart, The Scent of Buenos Aires;
Fikr Taunsvi, The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
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A key member of the original organisation that lead to the magazine’s founding in 1984, Unwin returns to Wasafiri 35 years later.
We’re delighted to announce an additional prize that will be awarded to this year’s shortlist.
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