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Sumia Juxun
Sumia Juxun is a poet, producer and educator currently based between Rotterdam and London. She often writes about memory, movement and the cyclical process of leaving. Her poem ‘Before Leaving’ won the FourHubs’ 2018 Poetry Prize. Sumia is a Barbican Young Poet Alumni and most recently published in Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry. She is also founder of SAWTI and programme lead (Social Practices) at Willem de Kooning Academy.

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‘Passport as freedom papers’ I

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February 2022

Sumia Juxun

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February 2022

(Title after a line from Momtaza Mehri’s poem ‘Mouthwash’).   ‘A home is only as safe as flesh’ – Dionne Brand   You share...

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March 2013

Celan Reads Japanese

Yoko Tawada

TR. Susan Bernofsky

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March 2013

There are some who claim that ‘good’ literature is actually untranslatable.  Before I could read German, I found this...

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April 2017

The Critic of Tombs

Ethan Davison

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April 2017

Emilia came to Tombs [1] in the twelfth year of the interregnum. It was the first time in history...

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Issue No. 15

A Weekend With My Own Death

Gabriela Wiener

TR. Lucy Greaves

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Issue No. 15

We all have tombs from which we travel. To reach mine I have to get a lift with some...

 

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