Wasafiri, Volume 38, Issue 1 (2023)

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Editorial

Editorial
The Sense of an Ending
Sana Goyal
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Life Writing

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Season
Rebecca Tamás
Pages: 3-6
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Feature

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Remembering Sara Suleri
Kamila Shamsie, Amina Yaqin, Moni Mohsin, Ankhi Mukherjee & Sarvat Hasin
Pages: 7-12
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Poetry New Writing Prize Winner 2022

Poetry
I have fallen from my dream of progress
Hasti
Page: 14
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Fiction New Writing Prize Winner 2022

Fictional Work
Cloud Archive
Sylee Gore
Pages: 15-17
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Life Writing New Writing Prize Winner 2022

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Salt Prints
Nadine Monem
Pages: 18-21
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Interview

Radical Gratitude in Poetry: An Interview with Lorna Goodison
Essah Cozett Díaz
Pages: 22-27
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Essay Prize Winner 2022

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Dub poetry and theatre in conversation: the development of a performance-driven aesthetic
Rachel Bolle-Debessay
Pages: 28-37
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Poetry

Poetry
American Creature
Shereen Akhtar
Page: 38
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Life Writing

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Uncommon Usage
Claudia Trifa
Pages: 39-45
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Interview

Writing with Others: In Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza and Sarah Booker
Sohini Basak
Pages: 46-54
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Art

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The Remains of the Day: Re-tracing Archival Art through Dayanita Singh and Ali Kazim
Sharanya
Pages: 55-64
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Poetry

Poetry
The Seals at Morte Point
Hannah Roche
Pages: 65-66
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Article

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Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future?
Stevie Marsden
Pages: 67-79
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Poetry

Poetry
Permanence; Buried Cry
Shahilla Shariff
Pages: 80-82
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Reviews

Book Review
‘An Act of Politicised Attention’: War and the Writer-Witness
What Have You Left Behind? Bushra al-Maqtari, trans. by Sawad Hussain Fitzcarraldo Editions, London 2022, pb, 247pp, £12.99 ISBN 9781804270011 | https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com; Lucky Breaks Yevgenia Belorusets, trans. by Eugene Ostashevsky Pushkin Press, London 2022, pb, 136pp, £9.99 ISBN 9781782278726 | https://pushkinpress.com; Five Days Untold Badr Ahmad, trans. by Christiaan James Dar Arab, London, UK 2021, pb, 216pp, £7 ISBN 9781788710831 | https://dararab.co.uk
Theodora Danek
Pages: 83-86
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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The Earthspinner
Anuradha Roy Mountain Leopard Press, London 2021, hb, 224pp, £16.99 ISBN 9781914495007 | https://www.mountainleopard.press
Anahit Behrooz
Pages: 87-88
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
Jamil Jan Kochai Viking Press, New York 2022, hb, 270pp, £23.75 ISBN 0593297199 | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com
Shamima Noor
Pages: 88-89
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Book Review
Out of the Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race; Translating Myself and Others
Out of the Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race, Esi Edugyan, Serpent’s Tail, London 2022, hb, 256pp, £16.99 ISBN 9781788169905 | https://serpentstail.com/work/out-of-the-sun; Translating Myself and Others, Jhumpa Lahiri, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2022, hb, 208pp, $21.95 or £16.99 ISBN 9780691231167 | https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691231167/translating-myself-and-others
Franklin Nelson
Pages: 89-91
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Aftermath
Preti Taneja Transit Books, Oakland, CA 2021, pb, 260pp, $15.95 ISBN 978-1-945492-54-9 | https://www.transitbooks.org
Haider Shahbaz
Pages: 91-93
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Exhumation: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra
Leena Dhingra Small Axes, HopeRoad, London 2021, pb, 360pp, £12.99 ISBN 9781913109820 | https://www.hoperoadpublishing.com/authors/leena-dhingra
Devindra Kohli
Pages: 93-94
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Book Review
Khamoshi; Hiding to Nothing
Qudsia Akhtar, Verve Poetry Press, Birmingham 2022, pb, 79pp, £9.99 ISBN 9781913917067 | https://vervepoetrypress.com; Hiding to Nothing, Anita Pati Pavilion, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 2022, pb, 68pp, £9.99 ISBN 9781800854826 | https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
Suna Afshan
Pages: 94-96
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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The Dragons, The Giant, The Women; How Beautiful We Were
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women, Wayétu Moore One, an imprint of Pushkin Press, London 2021, hb, 248pp, £16.99 ISBN 9781911590361 | https://pushkinpress.com; How Beautiful We Were, Imbolo Mbue, Canongate, Edinburgh 2021, hb, 360pp, £14.99 ISBN 9781838851347 | https://canongate.co.uk
Shayera Dark
Pages: 96-98
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Our Wives Under the Sea; there are more things
Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield, Picador, London 2022, hb, 240pp, £12.19 ISBN 9781529017236 | https://www.panmacmillan.com; there are more things, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Fleet/Little Brown, London 2022, pb, 452pp, £14.99 ISBN 9780349726731 | https://www.littlebrown.co.uk
Riddhi Dastidar
Pages: 98-100
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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The Kids
Hannah Lowe, Bloodaxe Books, Hexham 2021, pb, 80pp, £10.99 ISBN 9781780375793 | https://www.bloodaxebooks.com
Padmaja Battani
Pages: 100-102
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry; Queer Life, Queer Love
Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry, Paul Maddern, ed The Lifeboat Press, Belfast 2021, pb, 423pp, £15 ISBN 9781916222830 | https://lifeboatpress.com; Queer Life, Queer Love, Matt Bates, Golnoosh Nour, Sarah Beal, and Kate Beal, eds Muswell Press, London 2021, pb, 277pp, £9.99 ISBN 9781838110161 | https://muswell-press.co.uk
Liz Breslin
Pages: 102-104
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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Among the Contributors

Among the Contributors
Pages: 105-107
Published online: 21 Feb 2023
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