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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

feature

February 2015

Joshua Barley

feature

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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poetry

Issue No. 4

Mysteries of Music

Michael Horovitz

poetry

Issue No. 4

Having absently, that’s to say dozily switched on BBC Radio 3 down in the kitchen as is my frequent...

fiction

January 2015

The Vegetarian

Han Kang

TR. Deborah Smith

fiction

January 2015

Originally published as three separate novellas, the second of which secured the prestigious Yi Sang prize, The Vegetarian has...

Prize Entry

April 2016

clerical error

Victoria Manifold

Prize Entry

April 2016

Due to a clerical error on my part, the current Prime Minister is now living in the box room...

 

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