Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Rachael Allen

‘We hated the tourists, but they were the reason we had jobs.’

Rachael Allen on working in a fish and chip shop in Cornwall.

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Maureen N. McLane & Rachael Allen

Granta’s poetry editor Rachael Allen talks to Maureen N. McLane about ecology, lyric authority, and balancing poetry with criticism.

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Charles Simic & Rachael Allen

Charles Simic is one of today's most prolific poets. He speaks with poetry editor Rachael Allen about poetic movements, simple dishes and tragicomedy.

Art & Photography | Issue 154

Fergus Thomas & Duane Hall

‘You can really feel the horses, when you’re around them, you can feel their spirit coming to life.’

In Conversation | Issue 154

Laurence Hamburger & Rachael Allen

In Conversation | Issue 154

Robert Macfarlane & Rachael Allen

‘When you're dealing with a geological context, its age exceeds your knowing, exceeds your comprehension. Deep time is dizzying and vertiginous.’

Fiction | Issue 154

In Conversation | Issue 154

Emily Berry & Rachael Allen

‘I’m not even very comfortable being defined as a female poet. You never hear about ‘male poets’.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | Issue 163

Sigrid Rausing

‘What does the list tell us about the next generation or the state of the nation?’

The editor introduces the issue.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 129

Sigrid Rausing

In Conversation | Issue 129

John Burnside & Rachael Allen

‘Marx said the forest only echoes back what you shout into it – and this is very often true, perhaps more often than not, but I think the poet’s task is to suggest that it needn’t be.’