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The Hebridean Crab Apple

In the first of WritersMosaic's new series of films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation, the poet Marjorie Lotfi reads from 'The Hebridean Crab Apple'. Marjorie's poem is inspired by the mystery of a crab apple tree discovered on an uninhabited outer-Hebridean island. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah.

Mendez’s cultural highlights

Mendez on Wesley Brown's Tragic Magic, Endlessness by Nala Sinephro, Studio Richter Mahr, Donald Rodney at Whitechapel Gallery, and the film Neptune Frost.

Tamara Zimet

Tamara Zimet arrived in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic and feared she'd made a terrible mistake. 

Guest Edition

Cybernetics and ghosts: the digital future of writing

Edited by Michael Salu

"This guest edition is a thought experiment inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1967 essay Cybernetics and Ghosts, to reflect on the expansive role technology plays in our lives and in literature today."

WritersMosaic Magazine | Reviews

A House For Miss Pauline 

Diana McCaulay's creation of a fearless warrior

Theft

Abdulrazak Gurnah's tale of a young Zanzibari trio caught between their dreams and their reality. 

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Raoul Peck’s startling film about the South African photographer Ernest Cole

All We Imagine As Light

Payal Kapadia's poetic, meditative film of Mumbai’s working-class women and their resilience

Review by Danielle Papamichael

Champion

The stage is set like a boxing ring, but the real battlefield is the home of the Siddique family

Review by John Siddique

Resistance

Steve McQueen co-curates a photographic exhibition marking ‘The Golden Age of Resistance’

Review by Mendez

Nickel Boys 

RaMell Ross' film focused on a 1960s US reform school unfolds in oblique snippets.

Review by Roger Robinson

Green Border 

Agnieska Holland's fictionalised account of asylum seekers trapped on the Poland-Belarus border

Review by Maria Jastrzębska

Noah Davis

Noah Davis's illuminating and spiritual retrospective

Review by Colin Grant

WritersMosaic Magazine | CloseUp

Breadloaf

Nick Makoha talks with the directors of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference about creating a writers' utopia.

The Empire in miniature 

Reflecting on the centenary of the British Empire Exhibition in Wimbledon, the imperial Disneyland

Marijuana Made Me

The quandary over an education funded by cannabis

Chester Himes

Dream worlds, places where the importance of belief and hope chafe against the urgency of reality.

Franklin Nelson

A New Normal Aria

In my near-death experience, I touched light.

Renu Arora

Bad Bunny

Celebrating Puerto Rico’s musical traditions

Amanda Vilanova

Letter from Marseille

Marseille reminds me of a Florida where the patisserie is better and there are fewer guns

Jarred McGinnis

Encountering African Art Afresh

The Museum of Contemporary Art Al-Maaden and Marrakesh’s Cultural Heritage

Franklin Nelson

In Search of Tina

How J.H. Lynch's painting became a staple of the West Indian front room

Roger Robinson

Events

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WritersMosaic’s retreat in collaboration with the Hawthornden Foundation gets underway

Writers chosen for the WritersMosaic/Hawthornden Foundation retreat in Shropshire begin work at Arvon's The Hurst.

WritersMosaic Live

Book now for the Hay-on-Wye Festival in May. Find us at the Bradford Lit Festival in June, the British Library and the South Bank Centre in July, Edinburgh International Book Festival in August and Ilkley Lit Festival in October.

WritersMosaic Magazine | InSight
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The Hebridean Crab Apple

Inspired by the mystery of a crab apple tree discovered on an uninhabited outer-Hebridean island, Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, The Hebridean Crab Apple. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah.

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Preaching

'Preaching': A new poem by the T.S.Eliot Prize-winning poet Roger Robinson, from his forthcoming New and Selected collection, due from Bloomsbury in 2026.

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What we leave we carry, The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

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