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Dear Poet, Stay in Your Lane Feature by Laurine Tavernier Does poetry stop where politics begin? Well it does, according to Nabilla Ait Daoud, a politician for the Flemish-nationalist right-wing party N-VA and member of the Council for Culture of Antwerp. She recently rejected one of Ruth Lasters’ poems, Losgeld (‘Ransom’), as a “city poem”Continue reading

He’s Not a ‘Man Written by a Woman’ – You’re Just Ignoring All of His Red Flags as Far as Coco Mellors’ Cleopatra and Frankenstein Is Concerned Review by Moe Yonezawa Coco Mellors, a woman, writes Frank, a man, who has positive and charming qualities, but is in no way a character any man shouldContinue reading

Filling the Void: Exploring Female Connection in Loneliness Feature by Zoë Abrahams As I get off the metro, I find the streets of Rotterdam deserted. The wet ground reflects the flickering stoplights alerting me to cross the road. It has just stopped raining, but the air is still sticky and weighs heavy on my skin.Continue reading

Thread of Life: The Female Perspective in Greek Mythology Feature by Josephine Monnickendam The Moirai, the three Greek Goddesses of Fate, are not yet ready to cut the thread of life for women in Greek mythology. The sisters, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, are busy spinning, measuring and deciding over the different threads. Whose narrative shouldContinue reading

A Night to Remember: A Review of Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo Review by Fleur Pieren As I was looking at the stack of books piled in my bedroom window – the luxury of arranging my ever-growing collection in a Pinterest-worthy aesthetic has long been thrown out this exact window – I decided that, one, IContinue reading

A Story We’ve Heard Before: A Review of Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-Winning The Promise Review by Kenau Bester The candles were lit. The table laid. I can still recall the smell of the tablecloth, the smell of ordained fabric only taken from the cupboard once a year. I recall the dissonant scratching of the record’sContinue reading

Color Me Brown – What Girl, Woman, Other Taught Me about My Brownness Creative Criticism by Neelam Reddy Second place winner of the 2022 One Book One Campus Creative Contest on Girl, Woman, Other, hosted by the Utrecht University – Color – Four. I was four years old when I learned the color brown. IContinue reading

Dear Ma, How Can Poetry Speak to Our Migrant Experience? Creative Criticism by Leanne Talavera I ’ve come to realize, Ma, that arrivals and departures are very chaotic in their order. The frenzied organization of one’s life under a 30kg suitcase limit. The back-and-forth between a pen, and a passenger form, and a passport. TheContinue reading

What is even real anymore?

By Angelos Apallas “More and more I begin to feel that the whole world is conscious” (Lockwood 207). These are some of the concluding words of Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel No One Is Talking about This, an abysmal trip into the cyber-world, documenting the foundation of being as it surfaces through lifelike glimpses of socialContinue reading “What is even real anymore?”

Memory in the Poetry of Leontia Flynn and Mark Doty

By Evelien Vermeulen Mark Doty’s poem “Lost in the Stars” provides an elegiac retelling of a musical evening in 1992, at the height of the AIDS crisis. In it, the speaker reflects on the idea of memory, and what it means to remember loved ones who have passed. Leontia Flynn’s “Letter to Friends” explores differentContinue reading “Memory in the Poetry of Leontia Flynn and Mark Doty”