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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...

To Miquel   I possess my death She is in my hands and within the spirals of my inner ears She is in the balls of my eyes because she is my eyes If you are having a bad day, my eyes are also your death My death creeps carefully around the spiral of your inner ear and pushes out buds through the branches of your fingers   He met Misaki Konishi in his living room When he entered Misaki was squatting down, reading The servant barely cleared his throat before announcing the visitor’s name: Itakura no Goro The old man raised his face and made a slight movement of the head in the direction of his guest He responded martially Ask my wife to prepare the tea The servant disappeared behind the sliding door Misaki tried to stand up Aren’t you going to help me? he said The samurai hurried to do so, looking away so as not to humiliate him Now standing, the old man placed a hand on his lower back and gave a bow, possibly ironic, to which Itakura once again responded in earnest The old man smiled: I see that your heart remains in Kyushu; you are from Kyushu, no? From Nagoya You are among friends The old man purposefully looked towards his stick, which had been left on the floor The samurai stepped forward to pick it up, and held it out to him A beautiful city, Nagoya; I’m from a fishing village; they call me Misaki because that’s where I’m from; the name with which I was born is Ogata, Ogata Konishi Itakura nodded, barely closing his eyes, which made the old man smile again I tell you, you’re among friends, he said Leaning on his stick, he indicated the panel which opened to the garden, at the back of the living room   To Itakura it seemed that, more than being old, Misaki represented age itself Did you leave any family behind in Nagoya? he asked A wife, and two male children They’ll have opportunities in the city, they won’t be forced to do as

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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Prize Entry

April 2017

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Anna Glendenning

Prize Entry

April 2017

 1. PhD   Blue bedroom, Grandma’s house, Aigburth, Liverpool   I gave birth to one hundred thousand words. Tessellated,...

fiction

April 2013

The Taxidermist

Olivia Heal

fiction

April 2013

I did not want to walk. The day was dull. But imperative or impulsion pushed me out, onto the...

Interview

March 2014

Interview with Antón Arrufat

TR. Jennie Rothwell

J. S. Tennant

Interview

March 2014

Author of the novels La noche del aguafiestas and the experimental Ejercicios para hacer de la esterilidad virtud, Antón...

 

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