Beautiful, beloved John Burnside. Rest in Peace.

So excited to hear my story 'The Pomegranates' on BBC Radio 4 this Friday (28/06) at 3:45pm. If you get the chance to tune in, please do – the way Mali Harries reads it breaks my heart (and I wrote the thing!) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The most state educated government ever. Seismic. #stateschoolproud

Who else can write or think like this? Anne Carson the magician lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

i wrote about the concept of sally rooney (& love) for Telegraph Books telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…

I’m the humble replacement taking on Tristram Fane Saunders ’ Poem of the Week snippet, starting tomorrow in The Telegraph if you want to read online, you can subscribe to the Culture newsletter – we start with Mimi Khalvati

'The Museum of Imaginary Cities' from our sold out December / January 2024 issue.

from my beautiful friend Kate: vashtimedia.com/vigil-israel-p…

really enjoyed this book, and coming late to the Eve Babitz party, too: telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…

we are publishing some very good poetry over at Poem of the Week. tomorrow it’s * — and soon Melissa Lee-Houghton you can sign up to have it in your inbox here — secure.telegraph.co.uk/customer/secur…

Number 9 is a review of Annie Ernaux' 'A Woman's Story' (Fitzcarraldo Editions) by Lucy Thynne. 'Ernaux writes as though she is not writing but unearthing something that already exists.' Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/review…

wrote about Helen Garner’s very moving diaries for the latest issue of The London Magazine thelondonmagazine.org/issue/february…

'These are no pared-back autobiographies, but messy, uneven texts. In Garner’s case, they retain their spontaneity and candour because she never composed them for publication.' Lucy Thynne review Helen Garner's Collected Diaries (W&N): thelondonmagazine.org/article/review…

Really liked Solvej Balle’s project and the voice of Tara Selter telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…

He refuses to call it genocide — because even acknowledging the risk would trigger legal duties and raise serious questions about complicity and criminal liability. Instead we get mealy-mouthed theatrics from this PM. It is a genocide and the UK is actively facilitating it.

I’m in our weekly newsletter - Rebecca Perry is this week’s poet🐠 🐟 secure.telegraph.co.uk/customer/secur…

Disturbing interview by ⁦Lilia Sebouai⁩ with the incredible surgeon ⁦Nick Maynard⁩ about new levels of horror in Gaza telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Ayşegül Savaş is such an elegant writer. V happy to review her stories for The TLS the-tls.com/literature/fic…