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Victoria Adukwei Bulley
VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and has held artistic residencies internationally in the US, Brazil and at the V&A Museum in London. A Complete Works and Instituto Sacatar fellow, her pamphlet Girl B (Akashic) forms part of the 2017 New-Generation African Poets series. She is a doctoral student at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is the recipient of a Technē studentship for doctoral research in Creative Writing.

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On Water

Essay

Issue No. 29

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Essay

Issue No. 29

& we say to her what have you done with our kin that you swallowed? & she says that was ages ago, you’ve drunk...

Interview

Issue No. 26

Interview with Saidiya Hartman

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Interview

Issue No. 26

The first time I encountered Saidiya Hartman, she was a voice in salt., an award-winning play by artist and...

EYES TO THE RIGHT, NOSE TO THE LEFT     I had heard wrong Someone was weeping   *   But I couldn’t tell where the sound was coming from  The expression took me back to my childhood and an Eagle Eyes action man who had a little serrated switch at the back of his head You moved your hand against the mechanism bedded into the fuzz of his crew cut and there — the eyes moved To the left, to the right You dressed him in his combat gear You undressed him and redressed him in another kind of camouflage  He was your brother’s doll When you wanted him to play with Sindy something went wrong with the proportions: Sindy’s huge head and breasts and feet that looked like they had been bound, did not play well alongside him They each came from a different universe Her long nylon locks, his blonde fuzzy head It made sense to keep them apart   *   In error, on my eleventh birthday an elderly relative had given me a book of short stories It had been an honest mistake, but the stories were not meant for a child There was a picture of a doll’s house on the front Unlike Sindy and Eagle Eyes, the dolls in the book were designed to copulate All the little fitting together pieces of plastic   *   I remembered when my daughter was only two how, we had flown from right to left across the world, and how in the dark, looking down from the plane windows, all we could see beneath us were the blazing fires, oil on water, as we crossed the Gulf   *   I remembered, as every day I remembered, the teacher, the line of her make up, and the dirty blue of her skirt as she pressed herself against me  Everything came thick and fast I remembered the girl at school who had been on ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ I’d written to go on the show too I wanted to be an astronaut, light, light as air My friend came to school wearing her badge Jim Fixed It For Me

Contributor

October 2018

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Contributor

October 2018

VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and...

Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s ‘Heads of the Colored People’

Book Review

October 2018

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Book Review

October 2018

Somewhere on the internet is a two-hour video of a lecture by the late writer and filmmaker Kathleen Collins, author of the short story...

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fiction

April 2013

Popular Mechanics

Gareth Dickson

fiction

April 2013

In simple terms, the process of combustion creates energy that is converted into motion. The ignition by the spark...

fiction

April 2014

Submission for the Journal of Improbable Interventions

Brenda Parker

fiction

April 2014

Abstract Preparations for experimental work must be conducted without interruption to ensure experimental success. In this work, the impact...

fiction

Issue No. 20

Track

Nicole Flattery

fiction

Issue No. 20

My boyfriend, the comedian, took pleasure in telling me about rejection – how it came about, how to cope...

 

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