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Ocean Vuong
OCEAN VUONG is the author of the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Vintage, 2019). A recipient of a 2019 MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’, he is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Jonathan Cape, 2017). A Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow, his honours include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the Elizabeth George Foundation, and awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Pushcart Prize.

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November 2016

Hot Rocks

Izabella Scott

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November 2016

‘We have received around 150 of them,’ Massimo Osanna tells me, as we peer into four small crates stuffed...

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May 2012

Monopoly (after Ashbery)

Sarah Howe

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May 2012

I keep everything until the moment it’s needed. I am the glint in your bank manager’s eye. I never...

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May 2011

Why I Write (Rather than Riot)

Gavin James Bower

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May 2011

Watching the recent public demonstrations protesting, at times violently, the Coalition government’s budgetary cuts, I was forced to revisit...

 

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