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Books I’m Reading this Ramadan

'Ramadan is a highlight of the Islamic calendar and involves a month of self-reflection and improvement as well as abstinence from food and water. Gaining knowledge is hugely celebrated within Islam, and with more time on my hands not eating or drinking, this spiritual month is the perfect opportunity to learn something new.'

Half Brit No Brit

'I hear you loudly in your echo chamber: ‘We’re in the most tolerant land of them all’ But the least racist is still racist.'

Student Profile: Luke Bateman

Joining this zoom call, Luke is sat in his childhood bedroom with a bookcase overflowing in the background. Luke immediately starts chatting and smiling,...

Poetic politics: artistic responses to sexual harassment

Art personalises and humanises the cold calculated figures, gives a face and a story to the numbers we are so used to seeing.

In Truth

'Everything I told you Came out untrue'

Ten Days Troilus Waits for Cressida

"Above me, the Milky wheel turns round and round"

Rice-cakes

'a few more days of worrying about weddings, wondering why we seem to copy the lives of those we wish would love us'

Two Poems

"The memory is hazy, the photographic still of the memory I keep in my head, more so."

Love from,

'You're in all the details, taking up the small spaces/You're filling in the gaps between words in this poem.'

Tesco

'something in the bagging area/I looked down, and it was me, crouched there'

hands/face/space

"how we feel now must be the way that stars feel all their lives"

Requiem for a marriage

'I wanted you, all the more because I knew / Someone else was getting you. / What does that mean now?'

Growin’ up with Emily

'three girls sat dangling out the doors of a car, sea salt and suncream'

‘Ah, bitter chill it was!’: John Keats, the winter Romantic

If these next months feel dreary and dark, as they undoubtedly will, do seek solace in the strange, mysterious world of Romantics.

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