Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s SPACE issue. From the very small to the enormity of our imaginations, essays grow from the furtive earth-bed of mushroom forests to the stars. Granville Carroll’s afro-futuristic cover artwork “Becoming” places us in space. John Angerson provides the obligatory rocket-propelled photos. Matilde Gattoni reminds us that one’s freedom to explore space can suddenly be taken away. The connection with space doesn’t stop there. Melissa Tuckman’s aptly titled poem “Space Junk” connects space debris to modern living. A new section on New Nature Writing probes the world beyond our urban confines. In the second outing for Decolonising Travel, there are excruciating, painful stories, sexual imaginings in the steam room, and personal reflections on historical ties to oppression; all whilst giving writers who have come through VONA/Faith Adiele’s writing programme space to share their work. We finish the issue with a stroll through London — the most ethnically diverse world capital — through the lens of Books Editor Nicolas D. Sampson.
...To tell you that the Parisian apartment I shared with my family for a year was cramped would be an injustice to small things. Our apartment was so tight that when we arrived with our bulky bags and ample wardrobes and avid American attitudes, we couldn’t find space for all our stuff. The culture shock was brisk and pitiless as we shrunk to size and learned to edge carefully into tiny rooms. One day, however, when my five-year-old son was ill, I couldn’t stand those enclosing walls for another moment.
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