Annotated text: Rahul, Membranism, Wet Gaps, Archipelago Poetics

As part of the New Commissions Writers programme for 2026, each writer will publish an annotated text drawn from a larger reader the group has been close-reading as part of the year-long programme.

Writer Rahul has selected and annotated the text Membranism, Wet Gaps, Archipelago Poetics, 2010, by Lisa Samuels. Rahul chose Samuels' article to prompt a discussion around "interpretive contact" and the intensities of text writ large.