The Missing Slate’s poetry editors talk about time, love and everything in-between in our Meet the Editors series.
The Missing Slate’s 2015 round up of the books that helped define our year.
“I got the sense that poetry is much more a part of life in Pakistan than it is in the UK…” Vicki Husband, The Missing Slate’s October Poet of the Month, in conversation with Jamie Osborn.
“There is a morphous quality to the words in ‘Simple Complex Shapes’: they refuse to stay put.” Jamie Osborn reviews Vahni Capildeo’s latest collection.
“This is a novel that dwells in and grasps at the ephemeral…” Jamie Osborn reviews Payam Feili’s dream-like “I Will Grow, I Will Bear Fruit”.
“It’s extremely gratifying to be able to change my own story if I want, or to be able to change any story for that matter.” Chelsey Harris, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month for July, talks to Jamie Osborn.
“I love to work with language that forces me to choose the most powerful way to express what I feel in the fewest words…” Esther Phillips, our February Poet of the Month, in conversation with Jamie Osborn.
“Poetry is a kind of echo-sounding….” Continuing the Poet of the Month interview series, Raoul Schrott talks to Jamie Osborn.
Our editors pick the best reads of 2014 that contextualized the year for them.
“Like water, Art must find its level. It cannot be all things to all men.” In the week of his 70th birthday, McDonald Dixon talks to The Missing Slate’s Jamie Osborn.