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Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

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The Pious and the Pommery

Essay

Issue No. 18

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   Where is the champagne? On second thoughts this is not entirely the right question. The champagne is in the ice trough, on...

Essay

April 2019

Ariana and the Lesbian Narcissus

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

April 2019

‘Avoid me not!’ ‘Avoid me not!’                                   Narcissus   Let me describe a GIF I’ve been watching. A lot....

Small white monkeys stretch around in the dirt beneath a tree but do not get dirty They pick themselves up and dash away across the concrete plane, bobbing out of sight They are silent   …   The following evening is my dinner with the curator I wear a fresh white gown   During le plat principal my left bell sleeve slides through a rich sauce as I reach for my glass, but when I retract it the sauce slides right off I bother the sleeve edge with my fingers for the rest of the evening   The white monkeys watch me from a pylon, far away — ‘The Engine’       CAR SICKNESS   The past should go away but it never does… And it is like a swimming pool at the foot of the stairs…   – Poemland, Chelsey Minnis     About three years ago I sustained an injury, a significant injury to my body, and in the wake of this my mind did something both for and against itself I experienced what is sometimes referred to as an ‘unfreezing’ – that is, I reaccessed a traumatic experience, an instance of sexual assault, that had taken place six years previously, in my early twenties, the current flesh wound acting as a catalyst for this sudden thaw Shortly, I found myself in hell I began writing a long poem in order to manage, though I did not yet recognise the significance of this activity ‘The Engine’ was a poem about another world Inhabiting this world was a brood of small white monkeys that moved around like injured birds, like furtive healthy birds, like monkeys There was no pretence in the poem, though it might sound impossible…   In ‘friday’, Anna Mendelssohn, an important poet of zero pretence, writes,   Poetry can be stripped Racketeers compromise advantageously Unracked by the objects of their disquieted attention Work is too much trouble to those who don’t love their subject And

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July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

Ten Years at Garage Moscow

Art Review

November 2018

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art Review

November 2018

When I arrive in Moscow, I am picked up from the airport by Roman, a patriotic taxi driver sent to collect me courtesy of...
Becoming Alice Neel

Art

August 2017

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art

August 2017

From the first time I saw Alice Neel’s portraits, I wanted to see the world as she did. Neel was the Matisse of the...

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February 2015

Greece and the Poetics of Crisis

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....

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July 2013

Occupy Gezi: From the Fringes to the Centre, and Back Again

Alexander Christie-Miller

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July 2013

Taksim Square appears at first a wide, featureless and unlovely place. It is a ganglion of roads and bus...

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September 2014

Missing Footage

Raphael Rubinstein

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September 2014

The discovery of absences (lacks, lacunae) and their definition must in turn lead the filmmaker as composer to the...

 

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