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Elisa Gabbert
Elisa Gabbert is the author of five collections of poetry, essays, and criticism, most recently The Word Pretty (Black Ocean, 2018) and The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays, out in August from FSG and Atlantic UK.

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Miranda Popkey’s ‘Topics of Conversation’

Book Review

July 2020

Elisa Gabbert

Book Review

July 2020

‘We tell ourselves stories in order to live’ is one of those lines that is quoted so often out of context it has lost...

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Prize Entry

April 2015

The Incidental

Luke Melia

Prize Entry

April 2015

The automatic rifle fire was followed by an unnerving whistle at Ti’s ear. He gripped the shopping bags, grabbed...

poetry

February 2012

Sunday

Rachael Allen

poetry

February 2012

Supermarket Warehouse This is the ornate layer: in the supermarket warehouse, boxed children’s gardens rocking on a fork-lift truck,...

Prize Entry

April 2017

Birch

Thomas Chadwick

Prize Entry

April 2017

1997   Business boomed. Optimism was shooting up everywhere and bursting into flower. Music was jocular. Sport was effusive....

 

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