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FIONA ALISON DUNCAN
FIONA ALISON DUNCAN is a Canadian-American author and artist. Her debut novel Exquisite Mariposa won the 2020 LAMBDA Literary Prize for Bisexual Fiction.

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Interview with Fanny Howe

Interview

Issue No. 29

FIONA ALISON DUNCAN

Interview

Issue No. 29

Fanny Howe’s bibliography is as bewildering as her itinerant biography. Born in 1940 in Buffalo, New York, the poet and author grew up in...

Interview

January 2020

Interview with Jamieson Webster

FIONA ALISON DUNCAN

Interview

January 2020

Jamieson Webster serves as a torchbearer for a field out of popular favour. Her practice, psychoanalysis, was last century’s...

THREE DAYS   so it’s like, we shouldn’t press our cheeks together like we think / we know because say i saw pen on my sock this morning i looked and finally let some noise pass through lodge / into my ledgers, take heart there & i thought that there was something in the words it slipped down but then all of this   my padded fingers slip on to the handles swing above us we are shifted i mean shifting through the undergrowth & i am   i have fallen over i slipped #~#~# yeah but it’s fucking cheap they’re all so frightened of him and i want some lemon drizzle & the pub & you   HERE east oxford smells like cress now burnt rubber snakes its way up st clements smokes out the morning from my eyes & now the day is rotten limes in the way i speak to you, love   (####take heart, i never hit the right keys))   so the notebook bloomed when my cola leaked & i must wait for it to dry you try to make sense of it, the brown from the red, i mean but i can’t see that you’re right all my thoughts come in full sentences i am trying to pretend they do not three weeks in muck &   three days away from you they have nothing to do with what i mean? but the radio, what men say, #hahaha somebody lives there & kicks the ticker when they should edit, circle me deeper they only know grammar, & even when you are waiting we slip on my surfaces, talk for days about how i should learn to eat again with half a broken jaw & you will be here when i sleep, three days from now   & the days past   & i am always a gutted thing with hands too cold still to work the phone                             POETA EX MACHINA for Veronica Forrest-Thomson   my voice makes the machine work the tape clicks inside but it’s just ether now   if a

Contributor

June 2019

FIONA ALISON DUNCAN

Contributor

June 2019

FIONA ALISON DUNCAN is a Canadian-American author and artist. Her debut novel Exquisite Mariposa won the 2020 LAMBDA Literary...

Exquisite Mariposa

Fiction

July 2019

FIONA ALISON DUNCAN

Fiction

July 2019

I broke three contracts in 2016. The first was verbal, a monogamy clause. But he was fucking around too, and I knew, because everybody...

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Art

May 2011

Twelve Installations

Lawrence Lek

Art

May 2011

These installations express the transience of our sensory world, the impermanence of form, and the artificiality of our environment....

poetry

June 2011

Testament: Two Poems

Connie Voisine

poetry

June 2011

Testament What’s the difference? You might wear it out touching, touching, not buying. Like a snail on a stick,...

Prize Entry

April 2017

/gosha rubchinskiy/

Christopher Burkham

Prize Entry

April 2017

1. APARTMENT INTERIOR/MORNING/BELYAYEVO, MOCKBA, ROSSIJSKAJA FEDERACIJA…   There is a T-shirt on the desk in front of him.  ...

 

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