New writing RAIN Guest Editor KIRSTY GUNN introduces her pick of poetry and prose on the theme of travel WRITING is a world. It’s a place we inhabit entirely when we’re there – putting words down on the page, letting sentences connect and form on computer screens.We can’t imagine, when we’re writing, that there’s any other reality than this. The stories absorb us into their pages so that the world of our writing sets spinning within it another world – the world of the story we are making, the writing we have made. In this world of words there are cities, temples. There are villages, fields, streets and muddy rivers. There are seas, there is weather, there is temperature in our pages, the heat of summer days, the dark of night. There is a certain wind that ruffles the edges of the paper, there is the splash of water, the fall of rain. ‘Rain is the theme of this month’s showcase of new writing from Mslexia, this magazine devoted to new writing, to discovering what worlds are inhabited by you, Mslexia readers, when you sit down at your desks and computers, when you pick up your notepads and journals and begin to write. I am honoured and delighted to be part of your private world this way – for you to have let me in, to For the complete essay, and for Kirstys's full selection of poetry and prose on the theme of travel, read issue 32• Subscribe! Read a story & poem chosen by Kirsty Gunn Water by Anne Clark The tinkers' dog by Eleanor Livingstone
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