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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....

Wow it’s so still Isn’t it eerie Oh yes So calm Everything’s still That’s right Look at the rowers – look at how fast the rowers are going Ominous – yes, like the calm before the storm If you like Look at the rowers! Two long boats and bodies – rowers – like rungs or something Like notches or rungs – or struts or bolts – something The sound of the machine drying the bathmat behind me in front of you, very low – a good machine Time to leave you to it pretty much Handwriting, here and there – little notes, as you go along, things not to forget They move me actually Along with the photo on your travel pass, they move me   I didn’t put on my hat even though it’s as cold as forever and the hat’s right there in my bag at the bottom My mascara came away in the night and for that hat to look any good requires a little recent eye adornment – I realise that And I didn’t say anything, not a word, about the creature beneath the water No mention of the monster The flowers are lovely instead, especially the roses Oh yes, you say They’re high enough that I don’t see Mary getting out of her car I don’t have to see her any more, walking by and going into her house – it’s nice actually   Would it be a scaly monster with a tremendous tail I wonder, or something wraithlike with straggly wings? Will it, in other words, be something dredged or something fallen? A decision doesn’t fix because the day is actually more nuanced than at first appeared – and anyway, I don’t know where exactly, but there is something shifting and suddenly the whole scene is quite altered And yet, for all the world, it appears perfectly composed As if hovering in fact The whole vista hovers   Some kind of trick, obviously I could remain like this all day I expect, and not get any closer to working it out   It wouldn’t be a big deal – the monster’s

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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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. 9

Ordinary Voids

Ed Aves

Patrick Langley

feature

Issue No. 9

I am standing in a parallelogram of shrubbery outside London City Airport. Ed is twisting a dial on his Mamiya...

feature

Issue No. 13

Writers from the Old Days

Enrique Vila-Matas

TR. J. S. Tennant

feature

Issue No. 13

Augusto Monterroso wrote that sooner or later the Latin American writer faces three possible fates: exile, imprisonment or burial....

 

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