The International Literary Quarterly
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August 2009

 
Contributors
 

Shanta Acharya
Evgeny Baratynsky
Mary Caponegro
Peter France
Aamer Hussein
Edie Meidav
Ian Patterson
Mori Ponsowy
Jem Poster
Joan Retallack
Fiona Sampson
John Stauffer
Judith Taylor
Karen Thornber
Stephen Wilson
Leslie Woodard

Issue 8 Guest Artist:
Kenneth Draper RA

Founding Editor: Peter Robertson
Art Editor: Calum Colvin

Consulting Editors
Marjorie Agosín
Daniel Albright
Meena Alexander
Maria Teresa Andruetto
Rosemary Ashton
Leonard Barkan
Shadi Bartsch
Thomas Bartscherer
Susan Bassnett
Gillian Beer
David Bellos
Richard Berengarten
Charles Bernstein
Sujata Bhatt
Elleke Boehmer
Eavan Boland
Stephen Booth
Alain de Botton
Carmen Boulossa
Rachel Bowlby
Svetlana Boym
Peter Brooks
Marina Brownlee
Roberto Brodsky
Carmen Bugan
Jill Dawson
Junot Díaz
Denis Donoghue
Ariel Dorfman
Rita Dove
Denise Duhamel
Robert Elsie
Stefano Evangelista
Tibor Fischer
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Peter France
Marjorie Garber
Anne Garréta
Marilyn Gaull
Zulfikar Ghose
Paul Giles
Vasco Graça Moura
A. C. Grayling
Stephen Greenblatt
Lavinia Greenlaw
Edith Grossman
Boris Groys
David Harsent
Benjamin Harshav
Geoffrey Hartman
Molly Haskell
Beatriz Hausner
Kathryn Hughes
Aamer Hussein
Djelal Kadir
John Kelly
Mimi Khalvati
Annette Kolodny
Julia Kristeva
George Landow
Chang-Rae Lee
Suzanne Jill Levine
Margot Livesey
Julia Lovell
Alberto Manguel
Marina Mayoral
Ben Marcus
Paul Mariani
Richard McCabe
Campbell McGrath
Jamie McKendrick
Susana Moore
Martha Nussbaum
Tim Parks
Caryl Phillips
Elena Poniatowska
Elizabeth Powers
Elizabeth Prettejohn
Martin Puchner
Kate Pullinger
Paula Rabinowitz
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
James Richardson
Ritchie Robertson
Avital Ronell
Michael Scammell
Celeste Schenck
Sudeep Sen
Werner Sollors
Frances Spalding
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Susan Stewart
Rebecca Stott
Mark Strand
Kathryn Sutherland
John Whittier Treat
David Treuer
David Trinidad
Marina Warner
Edwin Williamson
Michael Wood
Theodore Zeldin

Associate Editor: Neil Langdon Inglis
Assistant Editor: Jeff Barry
Assistant Editor: Ana de Biase
Assistant Editor: Sophie Lewis
Art Consultant: Angie Roytgolz

 
Click to enlarge picture Click to enlarge picture. 60 Windows by Ian Patterson  

     for Jenny Diski


Tiny room whose window was never opened
Curtain for the window
On the cane chair under the window

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Pale green even in the window
Emptying the basin out of the window
Halts by the window and gazes

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Lay on the ground under the window
Kneeling up to the window
An octagonal vaulted chamber with a balconied window

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Her bed had its back to the window
Through the curtainless window day stole in
She went to the other window

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Sitting at the table near the window, working
Opened windows into the wrong world
A gale, exploding against the window

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Awnings lowered outside the windows
A reproduction of a stained-glass-window angel
Whistling up at vague windows

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Got up and went to the window. It was raining again.
Early light, coming through the uncurtained window
With its tiny windows looking on to the street

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Pat wandered from the window and took up the George Moore novel
He came out through the French windows
She got up and stood at the window

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There was moonlight in the window
There's a sharp rapping at the window
I am in the window, smoking

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They had seen it happen from a window
Then went to the window that looked on the street below
Watching you from the apartment window

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In my memory, at the window
The rain was still thudding against the window-pane
I think that I might open the window

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A camera is being held to the window
Silver things in the window
From the street the windows were in darkness

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His reflection could be seen in the front window
High up, from one of the small barred windows
His right arm through the open window

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I put all the lamps on and opened all the windows
A huge wall broken by gaping windows loomed above
Sordid glare of shop windows, made beautiful by distance

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A board nailed across a broken window
They opened all the windows
Sat and sewed by the window in the clear autumn afternoon

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The room was almost in darkness, the windows quite covered
The night I stared at from my window
A castle whose windows were glittering orange squares

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The windows, between lengths of white embossed satin
Our windows, on the second floor, overlooked the street
The butcher pulled down black window shades

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She had been sitting in her own window
The inner courtyard on to which my window looked out
The middle one of the three windows was half way open

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The sun filtered through the windows with remarkable subtlety
Rushed to the window, not to sail out of it
No lights behind its white painted windows

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Has to look out of the window at the elements, at nature
Draw down the upper frame of the window
The windows were shuttered. But there was a crack.