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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...

An Englishman, a Frenchman and an Irishman set up a magazine in London in 2010 This sounds like the beginning of a joke, but when we wrote this just over a week ago, it seemed probable, almost inevitable, that Britain would have voted to leave the EU by the time our next print issue is on press Post-Brexit, might it be possible for three EU citizens on low incomes to set up an arts and literature magazine in the UK? Rien n’est moins sûr   The ‘Life in the United Kingdom Test’ is a test for individuals seeking indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK or naturalisation as a British citizen The test lasts for forty-five minutes, the entrants have to answer twenty-four questions As of 1 June 2016, it costs £50 to take the test (up from £34) It is a compulsory part of an application for British citizenship or settlement in the UK Naturalisation costs an additional £1,236 If the polls at the time of writing prove to be correct, two of the founders of The White Review will be taking this test very soon   These are some of the questions they may be asked:   There is no place in British society for extremism or intolerance a) True b) False   All dogs in public places must wear: a) A collar with the name and address of the owner b) Wellington boots for big puddles c) Sunglasses on a sunny day to avoid eye damage d) A raincoat in wet weather   Who had a great influence on the English language and invented many words that are still common today? a) Edward Thomas b) William Blake c) William Shakespeare d) Wilfred Owen   What is the correct order of the national days? a) St George’s Day, St David’s Day, St Patrick’s Day, St Andrew’s Day b) St David’s Day, St Patrick’s Day, St George’s Day, St Andrew’s Day c) St Patrick’s Day, St David’s Day, St Andrew’s Day, St George’s Day d) St David’s Day, St Patrick’s Day, St Andrew’s Day, St George’s Day   Pubs are usually open from: a) 8 am b) 9 am c) 10 am d) 11 am   ‘The Enlightenment’ is known as: a) New ideas about politics, philosophy and

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

March 2013

Heroines

Kate Zambreno

feature

March 2013

I am beginning to realise that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking...

poetry

August 2016

No Holds Barred

Rodrigo Rey Rosa

TR. Brian Hagenbuch

poetry

August 2016

Hello. Dr Rivers’ clinic? Thank you. Yes. Yes, doctor, I would like to be your patient. With your permission,...

fiction

April 2014

by Accident

David Isaacs

fiction

April 2014

[To be read aloud]   I want to begin – and I hope I don’t come across as autistic...

 

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