Claudia Rankine and Victoria Adukwei Bulley: Triage

Triage, Claudia Rankine’s new book, is an unclassifiable piece of writing, blending narrative, criticism and lyricism to create something capable of facing ‘the collective devastation of the present’ (in Saidiya Hartman’s words). Two friends meet in an art gallery after decades of silence: we eavesdrop on their conversation, memories and enduring friendship.

Rankine was in conversation with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, whose debut collection Quiet won the Rathbones Folio Poetry Prize.