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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...

‘Sometimes I go to the tavern and get drunk          What of it?’                                 Nesimi 1 Bars tend us in our brighter afternoons toward the gentler tenses: conditionality, subjunctivity, would reign within their glasses’ stains, so that it might be possible to claim, if there could be a bar where Lorne Greene drank, post-Battlestar, a whole Bonanza shot – if these could somehow have been filmed within these Borders, in this North East – then it would be here where the piano is forever paused, the Cylons placed on charge, beneath this rippling cream ceiling motif not so unlike the way his hair was combed   2 In fact no keyboard need be present, just the suspension of its mammoth tooth-tonk will suffice, any further note defeats both memory and prediction of our tune In fact succession can find no hook here, like the gecko’s rubber foot, baffled by some non-surface, some lack of wall, the brim of things must suffice for now   3 The soft stabilities of brass and glass in late Saturday sunlight, unsure if it’s still summer, gloss on green leather, wrought-iron table legs tucked under sight, polite as beetles, suds amounting to a glaucoma lens of foam, and the muted flame, haemetite immersed in the alien finger- length depth of the pint’s remains Lorne must rejoin us, his stunted doubles, here, and pay off all his gunless hands with ale: all princes among men are here disinherited of their kinricks; in fact are here defined by abdication of any claim upon the future   4 Lorne! Lorne of the sausage they do not serve here at six o’clock alongside the pork pies and many fatty nibbles; Lorne of the flattened sausages of Scotland as though the issue of a union between minced meat

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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poetry

June 2015

Hotel

Mónica de la Torre

poetry

June 2015

Hotel   The housekeeper has children living in town with her but her husband and relatives are in Somalia....

fiction

Issue No. 8

Estate

China Miéville

fiction

Issue No. 8

Two nights running I woke up with my heart going crazy. The first time, as I lay there in...

Interview

Issue No. 8

Interview with Sophie Calle

Timothée Chaillou

Interview

Issue No. 8

Sophie Calle is France’s most celebrated conceptual artist. Her highly autobiographical, multi-disciplinary work combines the confessional and the cerebral,...

 

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