Motherborn Adrian Jones

Motherborn Adrian JonesIn response to catastrophes of climate change, droughts, tsunamis and pandemics: a feminist reimagining of the power of the evolutionary algorithm to sustain and nurture. Mysticism is history. Chinna de Kock has awoken to the fact that she cannot override the virus mutating at warp speed inside her. Traumatised by events in her Cambridge lab, she has stopped eating and speaking, but her calculations allow her to feel, map and assess her way forwards.

Hodell’s pacifist and anarchist politics are always present

and a poem on stately homes that needs to be broadcast before every re-run of Downton Abbey

John Lee Grenfell

The learned goose is oxymoronic in nature

Once brought down to zero

Eskandar Habache and Khalid al-Maaly

These contrast with some intensely personal lyrics that touch on childhood trauma

Originally published under the pseudonym Madeleine Vara in 1936 by Laura Riding's and Robert Graves's Seizen Press

Contributors:

Vijay Maharaj writes on the complementary art of Shastri Maharaj

She was editor of the Cork Literary Review from 2005 to 2007

He grew up in Hampstead Garden Suburb and worked in the City for six years