NW14: The Anthology of New Writing

by Lavinia Greenlaw (Editor), Helon Habila, Paulo da Costa (Contributor)

The British Council's annual anthologies of writing showcases the best in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from established and up-and-coming writers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Commonwealth.

Short Stories:
Lasdun, J - Peter Kahn's Third Wife
Vijayakrishnan, A. - Narayani's Journey
Pinchuk, M. - Memories Like Photographs
Gunesekera, R. - Independence
Robins, R. - The Caretaker
Gurnah, A. - My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa
Womerslay, C. - The Shed
Gunn, K. Now I Can See How It Was, I Think
Hogan, D. - Belle
Rose, C. D. - The Neva Star
Da Costa, Paolo - Turning the Page
Barlay, Nick - Stu Zsibinsky's Lost Cause
Pandit, SD. - Dying to See the Sea
Cowie, D. - The White of Her Arms
Poems:
Morley, D. - Whitethroat
Muldoon, P. - Eggs
Luther, C. - Possesions, Afterwards
Stoddart, G. - Pupil. You Drew Breath, Verfremdungseffekt
Walls, E. - Frogness, The Naming of the Rat
Etter, C. - Divorce, Drought
Knight, S. - The Edge of Sleep
Galbraith, I. - Best Man Dead, Stellar State
O'Brien, S. - Praise of a Rainy Country, The Brazier, Symposium at Port Louis
McKendrik, J. - Black Gold, Ire
Paterson, D. - Three Versions from Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: Being, Anemone, Taste
Musariri, B. Popular Fiction
Hove, C. Counting the Nights
Perry, P. - Wintering
Leviston, F. - Dragonflies, Lampadrome
Novel Extracts:
Feaver, J. - from The Art of Losing
Nwokedi, D. - ABC
Fernyhough, C. - The Thought Show from A Box of Birds
Harsent, D. - from The Wormhole
Freud, E. - Untitled
Rogers, J. - from The Experiment
Dooley, M. - from Malachite and Verdigris
Nwosu, M. - In the Shadow of His Excellency from A Gecko's Farewell
Grut, V. - from The Understudy
Soobramanien, N. - Another London
Markovits, B - Setting Forth from Imposture
Non-fiction
Ifowodo, O. - Word Games in Prison
Lee, H. Manhattan Days
Michelson, J. - A Piexe of Paving, Commuters, Crash
Warner, M. - from the prologue to Phantasmogoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphores, and Media
Faber, m. Me and Dave and Mount Olympus

322 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2006

Reviews

[EH-PI · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not very memorable, on the whole rather dark and heavy in tone in terms of the selection, but there were one or two that shone.