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Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

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The Pious and the Pommery

Essay

Issue No. 18

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   Where is the champagne? On second thoughts this is not entirely the right question. The champagne is in the ice trough, on...

Essay

April 2019

Ariana and the Lesbian Narcissus

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

April 2019

‘Avoid me not!’ ‘Avoid me not!’                                   Narcissus   Let me describe a GIF I’ve been watching. A lot....

  * * * zieleń jest zielona   z rana przymrozki   czujesz to w ziemi   w białej sukience   dalej przechodzą   nie wiedzą   jak zimno może być   w białej sukience     * * * greenery is green   come morning frost outside   you feel it in the ground   in their white dresses   on and on they pass by   not knowing   how cold it can get   in a white dress       * * * patronko dziewic i producentów świec woskowych daj któregoś z niebieskich pasterzy odetnę mu skrzydła żyletką * * * patron saint of virgins and the makers of ceremonial candles give me one of your heavenly hosts I will cut his wings off with a razor       * * * będziesz go kąpać osuszać ręcznikiem delikatnie kłaść do łóżka karmić jak niemowlę zrywać się nocą gdy zakwili będziesz go znowu miała jak twoje dziecko gdy wyrwiesz ziemi ciało i wtedy minie twoja gorączka * * * you will bathe him towel him off delicately lay him to bed feed him like a baby rise in the night when he moans will again have him like a child when you tear the body from the earth and then your fever shall pass     Genowefa Jakubowska-Fijałkowska’s poems have been published in numerous journals and newspapers, in her native Polish as well as in English, German, Czech, Russian and Slovene translations Her most recent bilingual collection, of me a worm and of the worm verses (2012), was published by OFF_PRESS in London Having twice been awarded the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship, she still lives and works in Mikołów

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Rosanna Mclaughlin

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July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

Ten Years at Garage Moscow

Art Review

November 2018

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art Review

November 2018

When I arrive in Moscow, I am picked up from the airport by Roman, a patriotic taxi driver sent to collect me courtesy of...
Becoming Alice Neel

Art

August 2017

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art

August 2017

From the first time I saw Alice Neel’s portraits, I wanted to see the world as she did. Neel was the Matisse of the...

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Art

February 2012

Awst & Walther: A Lexicon of Questions

Francesca Gavin

Art

February 2012

Awst & Walther are a husband and wife team who create multi-disciplinary art works which range from building a...

poetry

November 2011

One Night Without Incident

Eoghan Walls

poetry

November 2011

Freak July mists blurred all from Portsmouth to Reading in a late summer sky turned wholly unfit for bombing,...

Prize Entry

April 2017

Pylons

David Isaacs

Prize Entry

April 2017

Once upon a time, Dad would begin, I think, focusing on the road, there was a man called Watt....

 

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