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 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