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Joshua Barley
Joshua Barley is a student of modern Greek literature at King's College, London. Following a degree in Classics, he lived in Athens for two years and worked as a freelance translator. His translations have appeared in POEM magazine and elsewhere, and he has published a booklet of Greek short stories in translation.

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Greece and the Poetics of Crisis

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February 2015

Joshua Barley

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February 2015

On the Aegean island of Skyros, in the Carnival period immediately preceding Lent, a more ancient ritual takes place. Male inhabitants don an animal-like...

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fiction

October 2015

The Bird Thing

Julianne Pachico

fiction

October 2015

You are worried about the bird thing but that’s the last thing you want to think about right now,...

poetry

November 2012

Mr Minotaur

Simon Pomery

poetry

November 2012

Hey Mr Minotaur, so red, so neatly hunchbacked on account of your thick neck, ready to headbutt victims to...

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October 2013

The Good Soldier

Jess Cotton

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October 2013

Two hundred names are inscribed in a totemic list that opens Alice Oswald’s Memorial. The deaths of the Greek heroes,...

 

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