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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.
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Tamara Zimet
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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."
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Green Border
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WritersMosaic’s retreat in collaboration with the Hawthornden Foundation gets underway
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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.
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.
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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The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.
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