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/ Still bitter
change and impermanence
‘The bloody mess of individuals – / plastic stuff outside an abandoned tent’
—Samuel Tongue
Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country by Maithreyi Hughes Pablo Neruda / Still bitterPublished 2nd July 2026 Across the nine interlinked sections of her debut collection, Maithreyi Hughes explores what it means to be vulnerable and curious in the wilderness of civilisation. Here, politics becomes an instinctive expression of morality; animals are fellow travellers; travel a form of detachment rather than escape. Myth and irony share a lens; belonging folds into longing. In 'Borrowed Cardigan', Hughes reflects on her time as a literary
