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6 totalFeature24 May
On the slow art of the chapbook
Why small-press poetry collections are having an unexpectedly loud moment — and what the chapbook still does that nothing else can.
Feature22 Mar
Six debut poets to read this year
A new generation of first collections, from kitchen-table elegies to long ecological sequences.
Feature5 Dec
Small presses, big year
How a handful of independent publishers quietly produced some of the year’s best books.
Feature18 Apr
Translating silence: on the spaces between words
What a translator owes to the pauses, the line breaks and the white space a poet leaves behind.
Feature1 Mar
On the prose poem, and its discontents
Is the prose poem a contradiction, a loophole, or the most honest form of all? A defence.
Feature14 Nov
The poem as object: type, paper, ink
On the physical life of a poem — how a page is set, folded and bound, and why it matters.