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‘I veer towards writing about memory as a way to navigate something very present or painful in my adult life.’ Sharanya Deepak reflects on first drafts, writing rituals and resistance.

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“blacksays” by Joshua Idehen, shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary New Writing Prize for Poetry.

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LATEST ISSUE

Wasafiri Issue 106: Water (Pre-order)

Guest edited by Stephanie Jones and Charne Lavery

Editorial  On Water

Interviews Chloe Aridjis, Philip Hoare, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Articles Indigenous Knowledge and Marine Conservation in Oral Poems from the Kenyan Coast; Land and Sea Acts: Performances in and out of Photography on the South African Coast; Reading in Antarctica; The Time Sea

Art Ways of Seeing Wetness by Pamila Gupta

Fiction Simone Haysom, Aiysha Jahan

Poetry Ivy Alvarez, Joshua Bennett, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Joe Lines, Haji Malaakh Haji

Life Writing Hedley Twidle: Barbarian Phase

Review Essay  Mer-beings among Us: Three Contemporary Novels

Reviews Living with the Anthropocene; Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch; Rebecca Giggs, Fathoms: The World in the Whale; Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics

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EDITORIAL

1 ON WATER

Stephanie Jones and Charne Lavery

ARTICLES

13 THE TIME SEA

Sarah Nuttall

50 LAND AND SEA ACTS: PERFORMANCES IN AND OUT OF PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN COAST

Phindezwa Mnyaka

71 INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND MARINE CONSERVATION IN ORAL POEMS FROM THE KENYAN COAST

Jauquelyne Kosgei

79 READING IN ANTARCTICA

Isabel Hofmeyr and Charne Lavery

LIFE WRITING

29 BARBARIAN PHASE

Hedley Twidle

INTERVIEWS

23 FLUIDITY, INDETERMINACY, INTERDEPENDENCE: A CONVERSATION WITH CHLOE ARIDJIS

Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi

63 EAST AFRICAN MARITIME IMAGINATION, WITH YVONNE ADHIAMBO OWUOR

Kate Wallis

87 NETHER LANDS AND MODERNIST SEAS: PHILIP HOARE ON ART AND WATER

Stephanie Jones

ART

37 WAYS OF SEEING WETNESS

Pamila Gupta

FICTION

3 WATER BIRTH

Simone Haysom

58 WASHED DOWNSTREAM

Aiysha Jahan

POETRY

10 OWED TO THE TARDIGRADE; TRASH

Joshua Bennett

22 NABAGOÓNG

Ivy Alvarez

48 THREE POEMS AFTER A DRAWING BY TUPAIA

Joe Lines

68 BANAADIRI FISHING GEERAARRO

Haji Malaakh Haji, trans. by Ayan Salaad

91 POEMS 'OF SEA'

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

REVIEWS

93 REVIEW ESSAY: 'MER-BEINGS AMONG US: THREE CONTEMPORARY NOVELS'

The Deep–Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutton, and Jonathan Snipes

She Down There–Lynton Francois Burger

The Mermaid of Black Conch–Monique Roffey

Betsy Nies

96 Living with the Anthropocene: Love, Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis–Cameron Muir,Kirsten Wehner, and Jenny Newell, eds.

Joel Found

98 In India and East Africa/E-Indiya nase East Africa: A Travelogue in isiXhosa and English–D D T Jabavu,trans. by Cecil Wele Manona. Catherine Higgs, Evan M Mwangi, Mhlobo W Jadezweni, andTina Steiner, eds.

Asma Sayed

99 Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care–Elspeth Probyn, Kate Johnston, andNancy Lee, eds.

Stephanie Jones

1oo Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater–Melody Jue

Alexandra Campbell

102 Fathoms: The World in the Whale–Rebecca Giggs

Charne Lavery

103 Passport to Here and There–Grace Nichols

How to Wear a Skin–Louisa Adjoa Parker

Rebecca L Foster

105 Necropolitics–Achille Mbembe, trans. by Steven Corcoran

Atiba Rougier

107 Pierrot–John Robert Lee

Guabancex–Celia A Sorhaindo

Laëtitia Saint-Loubert

109 They Called You Dambudzo–Flora Veit-Wild

Vicky Unwin