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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....

Not long after I moved into my first apartment, I started keeping an archive    By ‘archive’ I mean a shoebox under the bed Those were days when it was hard to believe anyone would ever care who I was, where I had come from, or where I was going I had quit my day job as a journalist and decided to devote myself completely to my life as a poet and a writer, but, unsurprisingly, the path was far from straightforward For a long time, the box stayed empty, collecting dust as, night after night, I dreamt in the bed above   One day all that changed, when I was commissioned to write about Caribbean writers and their literary archives The project showed me how the most meaningful things in life can be fragile and ephemeral, and that, without a record somewhere, all of that substance can vanish like a forgotten memory   The shoebox filled Then it was replaced with a plastic container I got from Excellent City Centre on Frederick Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad Soon, one container was not enough: I got three more I started to keep everything: books, printed programmes, flyers I had a boyfriend who would make jokes about this One day I drank a bottled water at a literary panel at a university He kept the bottle and later said, ‘For the archive?’ We broke up not long after   Anybody who was interested in art in Port of Spain during this period – the late 2000s to the late 2010s – would have encountered my friend Rodell Warner I remember going to events and picking up his sleek, intriguing zines, some of which made it into my archives just because My apartment was in Belmont, where Warner is originally from, near to all the free art spaces in the capital I went to all of the exhibitions and film screenings I could, was in awe of Caribbean talent, gave or attended poetry readings, flirted with boys, drank too much, felt on the brink of possessing important knowledge, quoted Derrida too often, anticipated the dawn of a new

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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feature

October 2012

Crown of Thorns Starfish

Caspar Henderson

feature

October 2012

If you look into infinity what do you see? Your backside!  –Tristan Tzara   The drug-addict, drunk, wife-shooter and...

fiction

January 2016

Eight Minutes and Nineteen Seconds

Georgi Gospodinov

TR. Angela Rodel

fiction

January 2016

The minute you start reading this, the sun may already have gone out, but you won’t know it yet....

poetry

June 2014

Oeuvres

Edouard Levé

TR. Jan Steyn

poetry

June 2014

1. A book describes works that the author has conceived but not brought into being. 2. The world is...

 

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