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Kevin Brazil
Kevin Brazil is a writer and critic who lives in London. His writing has appeared in Granta, The White Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Art Review, art-agenda, Studio International, and elsewhere. He is writing a book about queer happiness.

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Alvaro Barrington, Garvey: Sex Love Nurturing Famalay

Art Review

October 2019

Kevin Brazil

Art Review

October 2019

The unofficial anthem of this year’s London Carnival was ‘Famalay’, a bouyon-influenced soca song that won the Road March in Trinidad & Tobago’s Carnival...

Essay

October 2018

The Uses of Queer Art

Kevin Brazil

Essay

October 2018

In June 2018 a crowd assembled in Tate Britain to ask: ‘What does a queer museum look like?’ Surrounded...

  * * * zieleń jest zielona   z rana przymrozki   czujesz to w ziemi   w białej sukience   dalej przechodzą   nie wiedzą   jak zimno może być   w białej sukience     * * * greenery is green   come morning frost outside   you feel it in the ground   in their white dresses   on and on they pass by   not knowing   how cold it can get   in a white dress       * * * patronko dziewic i producentów świec woskowych daj któregoś z niebieskich pasterzy odetnę mu skrzydła żyletką * * * patron saint of virgins and the makers of ceremonial candles give me one of your heavenly hosts I will cut his wings off with a razor       * * * będziesz go kąpać osuszać ręcznikiem delikatnie kłaść do łóżka karmić jak niemowlę zrywać się nocą gdy zakwili będziesz go znowu miała jak twoje dziecko gdy wyrwiesz ziemi ciało i wtedy minie twoja gorączka * * * you will bathe him towel him off delicately lay him to bed feed him like a baby rise in the night when he moans will again have him like a child when you tear the body from the earth and then your fever shall pass     Genowefa Jakubowska-Fijałkowska’s poems have been published in numerous journals and newspapers, in her native Polish as well as in English, German, Czech, Russian and Slovene translations Her most recent bilingual collection, of me a worm and of the worm verses (2012), was published by OFF_PRESS in London Having twice been awarded the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship, she still lives and works in Mikołów

Contributor

July 2018

Kevin Brazil

Contributor

July 2018

Kevin Brazil is a writer and critic who lives in London. His writing has appeared in Granta, The White Review, the London...

Nora Ikstena's ‘Soviet Milk’

Book Review

August 2018

Kevin Brazil

Book Review

August 2018

Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena opens with two women who cannot remember. ‘I don’t remember 15 October 1969,’ says the first. ‘I don’t remember...

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poetry

January 2016

Sex-Desert

Galina Rymbu

TR. Joan Brooks

poetry

January 2016

I’m screaming lying alone in this settlement     everything empty only emptiness sex – is a desert  ...

feature

Issue No. 1

In Somaliland

feature

Issue No. 1

On a traffic island in the middle of Somaliland’s capital city, Hargeisa, is the rusting shell of fighter jet...

fiction

June 2017

Ferocity

Nicola Lagioia

TR. Antony Shugaar

fiction

June 2017

A pale three-quarter moon lit up the state highway at two in the morning. The road connected the province...

 

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