Past Issues
Issue One
October 2011
‘a souvenir’: that is the subtitle of Tim Smith-Laing’s strange and lingering Omiyage, a poem we are delighted to publish in the first quarterly issue of The Junket. It has good reasons to assum…
Carrie Plitt, Arthur House, Tim Smith-Laing, Peter Scott, Charlotte Faircloth, Frank Lumbar, Thomas Marks, Anne Obituarist, Susanna Hislop, James Purdon
Issue Three
April 2012
April, as Chaucer says, is the month to shake off winter lethargy and hit the road. It seems apt, therefore, that so many of the pieces in this spring issue of The Junket should deal with distant trip…
Peter Scott, Olivia Laing, Jordan Savage, John Gallagher, Toby Ferris, Kristen Treen, James Purdon, Crystal Whitaker, Arthur House, Thomas Marks
Issue Five
October 2012
Eating breakfast, taking tablets, washing up: we do so many things each day without stopping for thought. Routine is most noticeable when it slips out of sync, when our daily chores and actions are fo…
Matthew Sperling, Peter Scott, Duncan White, Alexandra Chalat, Susanna Hislop, James Purdon, Florence Waters, Thomas Marks, Jonathan Pearson, Arthur House
Issue Seven
April 2013
When we build, we build around water. Our cities compromise with the rivers that pull in and out of them; as the cities reach for permanence, the rivers undermine them. Even canals, monuments to hum…
Peter Scott, Philippa Geering, Thomas Marks, Patrick Alexander, James Purdon, Lawrence Lek, Kristen Treen, Dan Stevens, Jon Day, Arthur House
Issue Nine
November 2013
If there is a time in our collective consciousness for reflection, Winter, historically a season of hoarding and privation - albeit it one punctuated with great feasts - is surely it. In Issue Nine of…
Peter Scott, James Purdon, Susanna Hislop, Dan Stevens, Digby Warde-Aldam, Dorothy Feaver, James Wade, Natalia Calvocoressi
Issue Eleven
April 2014
World is crazier and more of it than we think,Incorrigibly plural. MacNeice’s lines are worth remembering in our digital age, because however we succeed in connecting up the world, we wonâ€â€¦
Nick Haslam, Alex Niven, Sam Kitchener, Graham Riach, Fleur Macdonald, Dan Stevens, Jon Day, Lucy Beresford, William Dunbar, David B. Hobbs
Issue Thirteen
You know Orion always comes up sideways.Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains,And rising on his hands, he looks in on me (Robert Frost, ‘The Star-splitter’) The pieces in Issue XIII of T…
Matthew Sperling, Riaz Dharamshi, Anna Baddeley, Peter Scott, Gerard McCann, Toby Ferris, Maggie Gray, Joseph Minden, Kristen Treen, Sameer Rahim
Issue Fifteen
September 2015
There are some things we can’t put down. There are things that we return to, that we trace our fingers back over again and again: embossed text on the cover of a book; a crack in the wall where the …
Francesca Wade, Nathan Dunne, Eley Williams, Damian Le Bas, Kristen Treen, Alex Niven, Tim Smith-Laing, Lucy Barnes, Joanne O’Leary, Katrina Zaat
Issue Two
January 2012
There are always gaps between what we mean and what others think we mean, just as there are gaps between what we expect of something and how it turns out. Several pieces in our second issue explore th…
Arthur House, Kat Sommers, Dan Stevens, Kate Prentice, Hannah Rosefield, Ed Wethered, Peter Scott, James Purdon, Thomas Marks, Badaude and Kelley Swain
Issue Four
July 2012
Why do we write? Among the mysterious impulses that compel us to put words on paper lies a human desire to capture and preserve something, to create a bulwark against loss and chaos. Several pieces in…
Peter Scott, Arthur House, Thomas Marks, Susanna Hislop, Leila Peacock, Jonathan Gharraie, Rose McLaren, Julian Mills, James Purdon, Jonathan Gray
Issue Six
January 2013
‘Thinking in terms of one / Is easily done - ’ wrote Philip Larkin in ‘Counting’. There is a simplicity and clarity to the individual in isolation that becomes complicated as soon as other bei…
Marianne Morris, Thomas Marks, Susanna Hislop, James Purdon, Ruth Fowler, Peter Scott, Sarah Churchwell, Dan Stevens, David Hermann, Freddie Stevenson
Issue Eight
July 2013
Issue Eight brings the second year of The Junket to a close, and a number of the pieces published here are appropriately concerned with beginnings and endings. These essays, stories, and poems return …
Susanna Hislop, Graham Riach, Lulah Ellender, Anna Fewster, Henry Krempels, Dan Stevens, Thomas Marks, Peter Scott, Arthur House, Damian Le Bas
Issue Ten
January 2014
Here is the tenth issue of The Junket. It collects together 12 pieces of writing. In ‘Somnambulations’, Kristen Treen’s thrilling account of her night terrors, she wonders if it is right to piec…
Emily Wise, Carrie Plitt, Emma Bielecki, Kate Donmall, Caroline Williams, Kristen Treen, Emily Rhodes, Helen Jukes, Lilian Cameron, Marianne Morris
Issue Twelve
August 2014
       I am soft sift    In an hourglass—at the wallFast, but mined with a motion, a drift,    And it crowds and it combs to the fall;  (Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘The Wr…
Tim Smith-Laing, Jonathan Pearson, Nabeelah Jaffer, Zoe Pilger, Mary Wellesley, Lulah Ellender, Charlotte Faircloth, Digby Warde-Aldam, Matthew Ingleby, Jonathan Beckman
Issue Fourteen
June 2015
From north London to the North Pole, from the crowded arrondissements of eastern Paris to the sparse edge of the South American continent, this issue of The Junket assembles a footloose collection of …
Jo Lennan, Claire Wilkinson, Philip Sidney, Thomas Marks, Laura Kilbride, Karl O'Hanlon, Matilda Bathurst, Matthew Sperling, J.R. Carpenter
Issue Sixteen
Inner and outer, natural and supernatural, life and death - several pieces in Issue XVI of The Junket are concerned with the limits of our experience. There are angels, ghosts and dragons - but, stran…
Jennifer Upton, Jonathan Gharraie, Helen Jukes, Wessie du Toit, Nick Haslam, Sam Kitchener, Elana Wolff, Holly Corfield Carr