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Editors of , Diran Adebayo, Blake Morrison and Jane Rogers, have a retrospective muse on the selection process, the notion of post-post-colonial writing, the politics and trade-offs involved in editing, and literary envy.

Toby Litt, one of the editors of , considers the complexities of the editorial process.

by Sasha Dugdale

by Vicki Feaver

by Alan Jenkins

Granta revisited, we select our favourites and the ones that Granta missed.

Black mum parts my continent of head,

with glazed black cotton begins to wind

each division so fiercely my mind

bleeds black.  I can't close my eyes in bed.

White mum uses fading navy thread,

the tension less cruel, more kind

but the vision colour-blind

so I see red.

I read the instructions for shocking-red dye

(freedom has given me the green light)

yet bury the evidence under a head-tie

like the insight

that I see the world through a red eye

where blood and heart mean more than black and

white.

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