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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...

I know the tiger is here If I listen carefully, I can sometimes hear it panting on the other side of the door Mr Samuels says I should mind myself and always be quiet so I don’t excite it He says if the tiger gets too excited, it might knock down the door to see what’s on the other side, and then I would be in real trouble He shows me pictures of tigers in a book, and reads out the text to me:    The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest member of the cat family (Felidae) Tigers have patterned fur that mimics shadows, so they are able (despite their large size) to be camouflaged when hunting prey   I nod, and think hidden in plain sight   Mr Samuels has been working with the tiger for years He knows all about tigers At least once a day, he says to me:    ‘It’s my job to work with the tiger, and it’s your job to make the bracelets’    But often, I feel sad and don’t want to make bracelets – I miss my sister She left a long time ago Sometimes I ask Mr Samuels how long ago she left But he doesn’t answer me, just shushes me and gives me an energy bar Mr Samuels makes the energy bars himself when he’s up in the lab with the tiger, and it’s funny – they make me feel relaxed, not full of energy Sometimes if I’m really sad he gives me two, and then I’m allowed to lie down for the rest of the day and not work I lie in my hammock and look at the patterns on the wallpaper and remember things I feel fuzzy and floaty   I remember when I was little and I wouldn’t eat my dinner and Mr Samuels put it on my head Smushed it in so the mashed potato and gravy covered my curls I locked myself in the bathroom that day and wouldn’t come out Obstinate That’s what he called me It’s my earliest memory I remember sitting looking at my reflection in

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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July 2012

Fig-tree

John Clegg

poetry

July 2012

He trepans with the blunt screwdriver on his penknife: unripe figs require the touch of air on flesh to...

poetry

July 2012

Poem for the Sightless Man (After Kate Clanchy)

Abigail Nelson

poetry

July 2012

This is just to say,   that the inked glasses that you wear look like the sound of shop...

Art

May 2012

Art's Fading Sway: Russian Ark by Aleksandr Sokurov

Scott Esposito

Art

May 2012

I have often fallen asleep in small theatres. It is an embarrassing thing to have happen during one-man shows,...

 

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