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Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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 Technē studentship for doctoral research in Creative Writing.

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On Water

Essay

Issue No. 29

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Essay

Issue No. 29

& we say to her what have you done with our kin that you swallowed? & she says that was ages ago, you’ve drunk...

Interview

Issue No. 26

Interview with Saidiya Hartman

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Interview

Issue No. 26

The first time I encountered Saidiya Hartman, she was a voice in salt., an award-winning play by artist and...

It is a two lane road somewhere in North America The car is pulled onto the shoulder with the brake lights on A grey midrange sedan from twenty years ago The road is edged on both sides by thin half bare trees It is winter, autumn, or spring The day is blank, covered in high cloud Now and then another vehicle goes by A police officer walks forward, gun drawn, towards the driverside door of the midrange sedan He is state police and wears the felt hat and the uniform with the thick dark stripe on the outside trouser leg, the hat pinched at the top with the wide flat brim The shirt is tucked and tight round his paunch He is heavyset, thick-bodied He takes small steps, in a strong shooting stance There is someone inside the midrange sedan Through the back window there is a head, unclear, in silhouette They have not deserted the vehicle or fled the scene At least one person sat in the front Black dot birds scatter from the tops of the trees, and now and then another vehicle goes by The trooper is pointing with his right hand the gun through the window at the driver, and with his left hand he his reaching for the handle, going for the arrest He is shouting, has been shouting the whole time He pulls open the door and shouts at the driver He is pointing the gun and shouting at the driver He tells them get out of the car now He says get out of the fucking car He holsters the gun and pulls the driver from the sedan to the road The driver is female, Caucasian, middle-aged, and overweight She is facedown on the asphalt in her black slacks and baggy jumper, with the trooper on top of her, his knee on her back He hits her on the back of the head and unclips the handcuffs from his belt He is shouting, has been shouting the whole time He says get on the floor, get on the floor, I’ll cut your

Contributor

October 2018

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Contributor

October 2018

VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and...

Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s ‘Heads of the Colored People’

Book Review

October 2018

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Book Review

October 2018

Somewhere on the internet is a two-hour video of a lecture by the late writer and filmmaker Kathleen Collins, author of the short story...

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Art

Issue No. 4

The Land Art of Julie Brook

Robert Assaye

Art

Issue No. 4

Julie Brook works with the land. Over the past twenty years she has lived and worked in a succession...

poetry

July 2011

Comfort Station

Medbh McGuckian

poetry

July 2011

A witness has said that you raped women And brought them to the barracks to be used by the...

Interview

September 2013

Interview with László Krasznahorkai

George Szirtes

Interview

September 2013

László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954, and has written five novels and several collections of essays...

 

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