Tag: Goldsmiths Prize
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A new atrocity: C.D. Rose’s ‘We Live Here Now’
This blog post is more ‘thought experiment’ than ‘thought through’. Let’s see whether it works. C.D. Rose’s We Live Here Now (Melville House, 2024) won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize for experimental fiction. It comprises fifteen chapters, the stories of which are not told strictly chronologically—’They could we think later, be seen in any sequence.’—that all…
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Architectural and uncanny shape in Benjamin Myers’s ‘Cuddy’
Benjamin Myers’s ‘Cuddy’ won the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize. In this post, I examine the importance of shape to the novel. From the plane shapes of rectangular paragraphs to the emotionally rewarding architectural shapes of Durham Cathedral. These shapes reveal the full journey; of the novel’s emotional development.
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‘speech language voice’: ‘Diego Garcia’ by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
In this form-breaking novel, Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams wowed judges of the Goldsmiths Prize by co-authoring a story of companionship and collectivity, even during pandemic lockdowns. But they also related the recent colonial history of the Chagossian people and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia: the forced evacuation of native peoples by the…