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‘My mother’s dark hair/an un bound river.’  To celebrate the launch of Wasafiri 107, ‘Tending’ is a new poem on the themes of crisis and recovery by Australian poet Eileen Chong.

An extract from a personal essay by Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, Wasafiri‘s new Writer-in-Residence for 2021-22, on environmental collapse, guilt, shame, and the body.

Our new Writer-in-Residence for 2021-22 is Jessica Johannesson, a writer and climate activist whose debut novel How We Are Translated was published in February 2021.

‘It’s not just that other worlds are possible. Other worlds exist.’ To celebrate the launch of Wasafiri 107: Crisis/Recovery, read an extract from Pavan Kumar Malreddy’s in-depth conversation with award-winning novelist Arundhati Roy.

A new poem by King Llanza, a poet and environmental researcher from the Philippines, to celebrate the launch of Wasafiri 107 on the twinned themes of crisis and recovery.

‘Slow Motion’ by Ellie Slee, shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Life Writing.

A new poem of the sea by Byron Beynon, whose poem ‘A Musician’s Ear’ was published in Wasafiri 105.

An extract from a new sequence of poems on colours and their pigments by Forward Prize shortlisted poet alice hiller, to celebrate Wasafiri 106: the Water issue.

Heba Hayek is a London-based writer born and raised in Gaza, Palestine. In this extract from Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, a collection of vignettes of a girlhood spent growing up in Gaza, Hayek examines the weight of old memories and what it means to leave a place behind.