The Semblable Gillian Darley

The Semblable Gillian DarleySpanish poet and philosopher Chantal Maillard asks whether a world without violence is possible. Beginning with the tale of Nietzsches embrace of the Turin horse, and engaging with thinkers from Confucius to Derrida to Sontag, Maillard reflects on how the concept of the semblable (ones other, neighbor, peer, fellow) justifies defensive foreign and domestic policy as well as state sanctioned global violence. Can we broaden our frameworks of belonging

Raman Mundair’s second collection of poems sees her expanding her territory to create a new poetic geography

Losing Paradise

His musical experiences stretch from seeing the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1919 to touring in East Germany with his Pieces of Eight in the 1980s

home of his beloved Bluebirds football team

that ‘orphan off the street’

the last of which is Muntasaf al-Layl / Midnight

Than with the voices of men

' Ali Smith 'Savagely funny

and with their own savage logic the duo

Iraq and Jordan

Prose poetry is at the cutting edge of contemporary writing

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