The White Review No.29
Description
The White Review No. 29 features interviews with poet Fanny Howe, novelist and memoirist Scholastique Mukasonga and artist Ingrid Pollard, who also provides the issue's cover. We present new fiction by Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life Brandon Taylor, Ilya Leutin (tr. Anna Aslanyan) and Elizabeth O'Connor, whose story 'Woman With a White Pekingese' is the winner of the White Review Short Story Prize 2020. Emily Berry's essay 'The Secret Country of Her Mind' is a polyvocal account of agoraphobia in dialogue with photographer Jacqui Kenny; Caleb Azumah Nelson's 'On Solace' explores languages of mourning and expressions of community, while Victoria Adukwei Bulley's 'On Water' traverses global colonial history, seeking new forms of kinship as she investigates her own lineage. Poetry series are contributed by Laura Elliott, Jennifer Lee Tsai and Jack Underwood, while series of artworks are presented from Adam Pendleton and Herv Guibert.Product Details
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Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publish Date
January 26, 2021
Pages
200
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781916035126
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About the Author
ELIZABETH O'CONNOR lives and works in Birmingham. She recently received her PhD in modernist poetry, and is interested in writing about natural history, animals and plants. She is the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize 2020.
LAURA ELLIOTT is a poet and library worker in London. She is the author of this is hunting (Distance No Object, 2019), rib-boning (Moot Press, 2019), and lemon, egg, bread (Test Centre, 2017). She co-edits the experimental poetry magazine para-text with Angus Sinclair.
CALEB AZUMAH NELSON is a 26-year-old British-Ghanaian writer and photographer living in south-east London. His writing has been published in Litro. He was recently shortlisted for the Palm Photo Prize and the BBC National Short Story Prize 2020, and won the People's Choice prize. His debut novel, Open Water, is out next year.
VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and has held artistic residencies internationally in the US, Brazil and at the V&A Museum in London. A Complete Works and Instituto Sacatar fellow, her pamphlet Girl B (Akashic) forms part of the 2017 New-Generation African Poets series. She is a doctoral student at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is the recipient of a Technฤ studentship for doctoral research in Creative Writing.
ILYA LEUTIN was born in Siberia in 1986. He is a screenwriter and a columnist for a number of Russian publications, including Snob and The Russian Muslim. The pieces in this issue come from his first book, Ravshan's Real Stories, published in 2012 under the name Ravshan Saleddin. It was longlisted for the National Bestseller award and shortlisted for the Russian Debut prize. He is also the author of the novel Silence Full Blast (2015) and the collections The Caramel Knight (2016) and Oriental Miniatures (2018).
HERVร GUIBERT (1955 - 91) was a French writer and photographer. He was the author of some thirty books and played a significant role in changing public attitudes in France toward AIDS. Hervรฉ Guibert died at the age of 36 in Paris following a failed suicide attempt.
Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, New Statesman, and Prospect. She is editor of the White Review and a winner of the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize.
INGRID POLLARD is a British artist and photographer. In 2018 she was the Stuart Hall Associate Fellow at the University of Sussex.
