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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...

31 Standish Ave, Rosedale, Toronto 5 7 February, 1963     Dear Mr and Mrs Tuck,   Thank you for your nice Christmas card which arrived well before Christmas I wish you could have seen the seventy-two cards I had on display in our living room, and among them was the one from you Christmas is a busy time, but interesting My Christmas Day was a lonely one until I left the house at 4:30 in the afternoon to go downtown to have my supper in a restaurant Following that, I went to my cousin’s home to spend the evening I was back home at 11 o’clock, and was soon off to bed However, there was one ‘bright spot’ while I was alone – it was Her Majesty’s Christmas Message I’m sure you heard it too   I was glad to get your letter early in December, and to know the calendar arrived safely You said you had not been well, but was feeling better You also said that Mrs Tuck had high blood pressure, and was not feeling well I do hope she is much improved Do take good care of yourselves – both of you Good health is our greatest asset   I do part-time work, so keep plenty busy This house seems to require quite a lot of my time In a house there is always something requiring to be done, and I do all my own work Even though I live alone, I find plenty to do It is quite a responsibility, as well as expense, but I have to live somewhere, and apartments, too, are expensive I much prefer one’s own home, to an apartment, so will carry on here as long as I can do so   I think I told you that John and his wife were going to California for Christmas John enjoyed himself, and said the time was too short   We have had a good share of cold weather, but as yet not much snow Winter is getting by, and we will all welcome spring Can you notice the daylight stretching out? It is quite noticeable here, and I

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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fiction

March 2017

A Table is a Table

Peter Bichsel

TR. Lydia Davis

fiction

March 2017

I want to tell a story about an old man, a man who no longer says a word, has...

poetry

Issue No. 19

Two Poems

Sophie Robinson

poetry

Issue No. 19

sweet sweet agency   the candy here is hard & filled & there is nothing i love more than...

feature

July 2013

The New Writing

César Aira

TR. Rahul Bery

feature

July 2013

The way I see it, the avant-garde emerged at a point when the professionalisation of artists had consumed itself...

 

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