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The Odyssey

A story of heroic feats or a reckoning with the barbarity of war? Tolula Dada unpacks Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.

In Conversation

Nels Abbey: 'I have a people pleasing-element inside me that I don't want to offend people, but when it comes to these things, I think I have a responsibility to say what needs to be said.'

In conversation with Vayu Naidu

In conversation with Sita Brahmachari

In conversation with Jonny Wright

Dean Atta: 'They won't be here forever, maybe just as long as this poem. These two Black boys in paradise.'

In conversation with Delon Jessop

Nels Abbey: 'I have a people pleasing-element inside me that I don't want to offend people, but when it comes to these things, I think I have a responsibility to say what needs to be said.'

In conversation with Jonny Wright

Foday Mannah: 'Growing up in Sierra Leone... if you can convince people that I am a proxy to a higher power, that is significant power to yield.'

In conversation with Bashabi Fraser

Sanjoy K Roy: 'A thousand years later, it appears we'd all chosen to be reborn together in this lifetime, to work through out entangled karma and find ways to forget and heal.'

In conversation with Vayu Naidu

In conversation with Sita Brahmachari

In conversation with Jonny Wright

Dean Atta: 'They won't be here forever, maybe just as long as this poem. These two Black boys in paradise.'

In conversation with Delon Jessop

The emerging writer on the trailblazing book Send Nudes by Saba Sams, interviews with British secondary school girls in About the Girls, poetry by George Szirtes, Anna Tihanyi's bizarrely beautiful photography and music by the Londoner Joy Crookes.

Raffaella Sero’s cultural highlights

Meredith Davis’ cultural highlights

Darryl Marsden’s cultural highlights

Helena Geilinger’s cultural highlights

WritersMosaic Original Series

Everyone has an elsewhere

Remembrance is central to memoir writing, but our memories are often unreliable. Psychologists assert that as every time we recount an episode in our lives it is often tweaked and subtly fictionalised. In ‘Everyone has an elsewhere’, nine writers answer the challenge of writing without verifiable facts and few sources. They explore the elusive emotional truth behind narratives and storytelling.

Download WritersMosaic Quarterly 05 as published in The Bookseller June 2026

Edited by Colin Grant

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Editorial

by Colin Grant

Searching for Nelsa Lowe

by Hannah Lowe

Sketches from the edges

by Naneh Hovhannisyan

Think pathology?

by Colin Grant

Forests where past and present meet

by Maria Jastrzębska

My father’s places

by Mirza Waheed

Luc and Peggy

by Suzanne Harrington

Anna Freud at the Freud Museum

by Andy Bay

King Herod in Florida

by Isabelle Dupuy

Devotion

by Sarah Issever

Featured episode

My father’s places

A son's remembrance of his father through idyllic seasons at a Kashmir mountain resort.

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Poetry films

Four UK based poets read their work and pieces that have been inspirational. Commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, in collaboration with WritersMosaic.

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Poetry films

Four UK based poets read their work and pieces that have been inspirational. Commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, in collaboration with WritersMosaic.

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Anthony Anaxagorou reads his poem, ‘Things Already Lost’.

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Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, ‘The Hebridean Crab Apple’.

3 mins

Anthony Anaxagorou reads his poem, ‘Things Already Lost’.

3 mins

Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, ‘The Hebridean Crab Apple’.

3 mins

Jo Clement reads her poem, ‘Playing Cards’.

3 mins

Jason Allen-Paisant reads his poem, ‘Right Now I’m Standing’.

3 mins

Jo Clement reads her poem, ‘Playing Cards’.

3 mins

Jason Allen-Paisant reads his poem, ‘Right Now I’m Standing’.

3 mins

WritersMosaic Original Series

Fiction Prescriptions

Great novels offer insights into the human condition but can they also be tools for living? Co-hosts Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy provide bibliotherapy in our new podcast series. Each month listeners can write in with their dilemmas and our dynamic duo will suggest remedies for the head and heart, drawn from novels, poetry and prose collections.

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