The Missing Slate’s poetry editors talk about time, love and everything in-between in our Meet the Editors series.
“I really wanted to argue with Houellebecq, so much so that I had to scribble little notes in the margins to formulate my dissent…” Audrey Ryback on ‘Submission’, Michel Houellebecq’s latest succès de scandale.
“Poetry can play a crucial role in finding a language of vulnerability, in holding out a mirror to our world’s blemishes…” Continuing our Poet of the Month series, Daniel Voskoboynik talks to Audrey Ryback.
“I love to write most: in a simultaneous state of presence and absence… When silence fills the room and darkness lurks outside the window.” Jan Wagner, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, interviewed by Audrey Ryback.
Original German text of Audrey Ryback’s interview with Jan Wagner.
The Missing Slate’s Audrey Ryback talks to Sonia Pressman Fuentes.
“A friend of mine told me recently that Jonathan Franzen used to blindfold himself daily, touch-type for 6 hours and then get drunk on vodka with his wife. I don’t do this.” Rowland Bagnall, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month for February, talks to Audrey Ryback.
Audrey Ryback talks to Poet of the Month Ágnes Lehóczky about the challenges of writing in two languages, and the difficulties of defining poetry.
Audrey Ryback writes of heroism in the face of possible imminent death in war-torn Syria…
Audrey Ryback travels to Chile in search of two of the twentieth-century’s greatest poets