Poet Rabha Ashry on ‘loving the alien’, Black Sunflowers, and Playing Foreigner
Issue 38 - Gulf Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha Issue 38 - Gulf Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha

Poet Rabha Ashry on ‘loving the alien’, Black Sunflowers, and Playing Foreigner

Winner of the 2020 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, Rabha Ashry probes her different identities, navigating Arabness, queerness and more, in her chapbook “loving the alien”, published by UK’s first crowdfunded poetry press Black Sunflowers. Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha reviews her poems and talks to Ashry about her process and practice

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Do You See Me?: Writing a World Without Cages
Issue 32 - Prison Vamika Sinha Issue 32 - Prison Vamika Sinha

Do You See Me?: Writing a World Without Cages

“Stories of incarceration are always stories about race, power, and inequity.” In this piece, editor-in-Chief Vamika Sinha shares an incisive discussion with her former boss, New Yorker journalist Daniel Gross. Thick and difficult like rope, Sinha’s writing raises questions on the ethics and struggles of engaging with prison literature

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