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Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

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The Pious and the Pommery

Essay

Issue No. 18

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   Where is the champagne? On second thoughts this is not entirely the right question. The champagne is in the ice trough, on...

Essay

April 2019

Ariana and the Lesbian Narcissus

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

April 2019

‘Avoid me not!’ ‘Avoid me not!’                                   Narcissus   Let me describe a GIF I’ve been watching. A lot....

we eat our own tongues              wash off the dirt the villagers flung                        coat them in flour ground by our foreign                                 hands   season with kauderwelsch and fry the fuck out of them                mother plates them garnished                                    with unspeakable accents                                            her hair coiffed in the style all the ladies in the village wear   father’s palate thick with a dialect                                       that cannot be excised                                               takes out his otherness   puts it in a glass on the sill                                                             where it grins at passer-by    this is how we eat: swallowing   the light filtered by the jalousie stripes us all in sun                     and shade   outside a single peal of the big bronze bell                                        announces a quarter past normal                                                                            the scraping of knives and forks on plates up and down                              the streets echoing like mechanical birdsong    sister pours sips of her blood    into our mouths from a cup made of a gold                                                 so lustrous it makes the future seem impossibly    bright   brother leans back    balancing on the hind legs of his chair   stuck             in the moment of falling    his mouth open                                      full of broken                                                          swings stolen from the playground                                                                                        behind the house where we lived this is us   mealtimes are holy and we the congregation                                   knees studded with gravel are learning                                               how to pray again   to mortal gods   with dirty hands                                                      with chipped off teeth   and accents thick as bunker walls   made of bread

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

Ten Years at Garage Moscow

Art Review

November 2018

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art Review

November 2018

When I arrive in Moscow, I am picked up from the airport by Roman, a patriotic taxi driver sent to collect me courtesy of...
Becoming Alice Neel

Art

August 2017

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art

August 2017

From the first time I saw Alice Neel’s portraits, I wanted to see the world as she did. Neel was the Matisse of the...

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Art

January 2012

Interview with Ryan Gander

Timothée Chaillou

Art

January 2012

London-based conceptual artist Ryan Gander masters the art of storytelling through an immensely complex yet subtly coherent body of...

Interview

Issue No. 1

Interview with Paula Rego

Ben Eastham

Helen Graham

Interview

Issue No. 1

Dame Paula Rego introduces me into her North London home with a crooked smile and a plate of biscuits....

Prize Entry

April 2017

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Anna Glendenning

Prize Entry

April 2017

 1. PhD   Blue bedroom, Grandma’s house, Aigburth, Liverpool   I gave birth to one hundred thousand words. Tessellated,...

 

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