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Junket 16 is here! Jonathan Gharraie gets haunted, Helen Jukes keeps bees, Nick Haslam meets Syrian refugees, Jennifer Upton looks after a cat, then there's Wessie du Toit on South Africa, a musical Homer from Sam Kitchener and poetry by Holly Corfield Carr and Elena Wolff. Enjoy! http://thejunket.org/current-issue/

Dear Junketeers — we're pleased to announce the launch of The Junket issue 14, including: Paris, London, Colombia, a cold Virginia Woolf, a hot summer in Oxford, a becalmed literary ship, an STD clinic, and three excellent poems. Welcome!

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New today at The Junket: we're delighted to publish Nick Richardson's new translation of the Norse poem 'Völuspá: The Seeress’s Prophecy'. Something for a wintry evening: http://thejunket.org/2014/01/archive/voluspa-the-seeresss-prophecy/

Völuspá: The Seeress’s Prophecy | The Junket Nick RichardsonVöluspá: The Seeress’s Prophecy6th January 2014A Preface to the Poem‘Völuspá’ compresses the whole of the Norse vision of the universe’s history and future into its 60-odd short stanzas. It is narrated by a seeress, or Völva, who is requested by Odin to share her memories and propheci...

New at The Junket: 'Tin Men', a short story by Benjamin Johncock. http://thejunket.org/2012/11/archive/latest/tin-men/

Tin Men | The Junket Benjamin JohncockTin Men21st November 2012At the time, he hadn’t realised how serious the situation had been.‘If anything happens to me,’ he remembered his father saying. ‘You have to look after your mother and sister.’He was 11 then, 41 now. Life was long, he thought.In the staff cafeteria, he push...