EDITORIAL                                                                  

1 RADICALLY DISRUPTIVE CONNECTION

Emily Mercer

LEAD FEATURE

4 GRENFELL, RACE, REMEMBRANCE

Claire Launchbury

ARTICLES

32 PERFORMANCE POETRY, COVID-19 AND THE NEW ‘PUBLIC SPHERE’

Tom Kew

42 ‘STOP FINDING DIMENSIONS TO SILENCE’: SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS FROM

OCTAVIA POETRY COLLECTIVE

Rachel Long, Ankita Saxena, Amaal Said, and Momtaza Mehri

INTERVIEWS

14 ‘ANXIOUS CITIZENS OF THE ATTENTION ECONOMY’: IN CONVERSATION WITH MOHSIN HAMID

Saba Karim Khan

25 HISTORY, HUMOUR AND SPIRITUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA: AN INTERVIEW WITH OKEY NDIBE

Rebekah Cumpsty

63 WORKING CREATIVELY ACROSS MEDIA, LANGUAGE AND LOCATION: EAST AFRICA–UK LITERARY COLLABORATIONS

Kate Wallis

87 VIVA SOUTH AFRICAN VOICES: C A DAVIDS AND KELWYN SOLE

C A Davids and Kelwyn Sole

ART

54 THE PHILIPPINE INCLINATION: MIGRATIONS OF ART

Patrick Flores

FICTION

20 A DROP OF HAPPINESS

Selvedin Avdić (trans. by Will Firth)

74 HOW YOU MAKE JAMAICAN COCONUT OIL (TAKEN FROM PAGE 38 OF THE OLE-TIME JAMAICA RECIPE BOOK)

Sharma Taylor

80 PEACE BE STILL

Ethel Maqeda

POETRY

3 THE CONTRACT CLEANERS PREPARE FLAT 64 FOR THE NEXT TENANT

Tom Sastry

23 A MUSICIAN’S EAR

Byron Beynon

24 WOUND

Dahmicca Wright

73 CONVENTIONAL WISDOM (ARABIC SAYING TRANSLATED TWENTY WAYS)

Yasmine Seale

REVIEWS

94 REVIEW ESSAY: ‘AFRICA PULSE’: DYNAMIC INTERVENTIONS IN AFRICAN LITERATURE Stitching a Whirlwind: An Anthology of Southern African Poems and Translations – Antjie Krog, coordinator

She’s to Blame – B M Khaketla, trans. by J M Lenake

Senkatana – S M Mofokeng, trans. by J M Lenake

Don Jadu – S E K Mqhayi, trans. by T Mabeqa, N Mpolweni and T Ntwana

The Lawsuit of the Twins – S E K Mqhayi, trans. by T Mabeqa

Chris Dunton

98 Braised Pork – An Yu

Crystal Koo

99 Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka’s War – Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham

Manav Ratti

101 Letter’s Home 回家 – Jennifer Wong

Jason Eng Hun Lee

102 Afropolitanism and the Novel: De-realizing Africa – Ashleigh Harris

Written under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa – Carli Coetzee

Daniel Chukwuemeka

104 Our Daily Bread – Predrag Matvejević, trans. by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić

Tom Conaghan

106 Islamophobia and the Novel – Peter Morey

Mohammad Farhan

107 Jacob’s Advice – Jude Cook

W B Gooderham

109 Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands – Hazel V Carby

Henghameh Saroukhani

110 Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community – James Ogude, ed.

Dina Ligaga