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
