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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...

dear Other, with pink dish   (Flo Reynolds & Cat Woodward)     in the interest of distance let me describe you: the frame of two seats, the little peg to hang a coat here, & here the way the seat cuts into space & fields intrude through the eye which casts the light by which it sees by this token a parable agon arrives at last introducing to this frame an ear where 2 flowers in a jar querulous & orange in the interest of distance (where i live) let me describe to you a rising cannon that burgeons like water how boastful  architectures of elsewhere render the film within the film: power tools to a living forehead & here in my distance drill bits cut  to precious briolettes let me say to you ‘gondwanaland’ through  the moving shapes, let me say sweet gem ‘where did you go?’ & ‘where have all the girls gone?’ & ‘where have all the not-girls gone?’ i have looked all over in this picture place which has an echo, a floor plan with two eyes open (cringe) happy accident is cosy in between: window, door, idea of door, surprise! too big to see its edges,  & holding several years this gallery space a sunken grey radiator  full of colony, this the distance i am goingthrough & into this space letting let now and let let my coat from the peg there let hold the arm i wear let slow let speak too loudly so all consents my coat in the corner slip on before leaving to go now, so letting go quiet and my permission to go quiet and look at it fleshly too much i asking quietly a frame is 5×9 and give                                                                                    remind me at this vertex my body is circumstance & its environs so let the frame i wear turn & consider a girlform (headless armless legless torso, smooth terracotta with bosom) & a not-girlform (helmet the curve of willowleaf, plumes) let hold the

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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feature

November 2014

Every Night is Like a Disco: Iraq 2003

Paul Currion

feature

November 2014

That day at Kassim’s, there was no music. There was almost no sound at all, not even the echoes...

Interview

Issue No. 11

Interview with Alice Oswald

Max Porter

Interview

Issue No. 11

Alice Oswald is a British poet who lives in Devon with her family. Newspaper profiles will inevitably mention the...

Interview

October 2014

Interview with Vanessa Place

Kyoo Lee

Jacob Bromberg

Interview

October 2014

Vanessa Place is widely considered to be one of the figureheads of contemporary conceptual poetry, yet while books such...

 

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