The Isis Podcasts: In Conversation with Theo Kwek & Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Join The Isis for a conversation with the poets Theo Kwek and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, discussing creativity in lockdown, identity in poetry, and their experiences of Oxbridge. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Q3YUDRZWTEWxGaStAP2ut?si=e8HsGQnvR525mdaQrNE45w
Queer Manifestos
I was late at night, I was bored, and a stack of unread books was calling me. Among these was Breanne Fahs’ Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution. As a queer woman, I immediately flipped to Fahs’ carefully curated section on queer manifestos. Instead of the more modern manifestos
Voices from the Entr’acte
“You’re not performing femininity in a way that we can read onstage, so you’re failing at performing this,” says Aiden K. Feltkamp, recalling the rehearsal process for a scene from Rossini’s Barber of Seville. Feltkamp – a transgender non-binary writer based in New York City – trained
Drifting Bridge
You are up on the bridge, my friend. You used to deliver heavy household equipment all over the country— hands of leather, moving like silk. One morning, many years ago, you blew into my house on a wood-violet breeze and landed inexplicably in the kitchen doorway. The setting sun spans the valley
Telling with my eyes
This piece was originally written by the hugely influential Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa. Despite his many contributions to Japanese literature, his work is seldom translated into foreign languages due to his ascetic values which kept it hidden from the public eye. This piece is an attempt to intro
Mimicry
Mimicry She stoops to worship Mimicry, old, borrowed and belly-full of what has already been the start and end of ideas. She rewrites Genesis with a stale bible; a tea-ringed, deadened […]
The Scam of the Morning Routine
What does a Successful Person do in the morning? The answer, it would seem, if you read enough articles about the CEOs of fashionable start-ups, is a lot: they get up at 5:45am, drink a glass of ice-cold lemon water, run a marathon, take some grateful breaths in the shower, and still find time to [&
Grass Island
Guernsey was built to be on a postcard. Sand crocuses and sea thrift flowers carpet its long coastal dunes; thatched stone cottages with open shutters bask in its continental sun; yellow and pink bunting canopies its narrow, cobbled streets. It is a polite place. Road signs instruct vehicles to R
The Isis Podcasts: In Conversation with Bernard O’Donoghue
Join The Isis for a conversation with the celebrated Irish poet and current Emeritus Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford, discussing the relevance of poetry in the modern world, the importance of globalism, and what changes might be made in the way we approach literature. Listen on Spotify: https://ope