Half the Kingdom/Det halve rige
“I neither cut off a toe, nor shaved off a heel/ just minced my way through it all/ with a smile…” Poem of the Week (October 12), by Jesper Wung-Sung, translated from Danish by Lindy Falk van Rooyen.
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Public Statement: Allegations of Plagiarism against Redscar McOdindo K’Oyuga
Detailing allegations of plagiarism against Redscar McOdindo K’Oyuga.
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Spotlight Site: Deserter
“It isn’t all beer. Not quite…”
Next stop on Robert Cottrell’s tour of the web: Deserter.
Parallel
“It’s raining again./ they don’t tell you about the/ rain/ before you come/ or the cold or the clouds…” Weekend poem, by Samuel Usayd Ilyas.
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Poet of the Month: Kim Yideum
“I don’t want to have an identity. I am just one of the regular people who carry wounds and sadness with them, but try to recover and live. I believe in the dignity of ordinary life.”
In our August Poet of the Month interview, Kim Yideum talks to Katy Lewis Hood (via translator Ji Yoon Lee).
Poet of the Month: Kim Yideum (Korean version)
Katy Lewis Hood interviews The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, Kim Yideum, with Kim Yideum’s answers displayed in the original Korean.
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Spotlight Site: Spitalfields Life
“There is a dream-like quality to Spitalfields Life. As you are drawn into it, you feel as though you are leaving behind the brightly-coloured East End of the present, and stepping into the black-and-white East End that we know from photographs of a hundred years ago…”
Robert Cottrell continues his series on the best of the web.
god the plural
“narcissus, look in the water./ the man in the sky is soaking.”
Weekend poem, by Rebecca Took.
Spotlight Site: Wait But Why
“Its secret sauce is, I think, optimism. A better world is available to us if only we can do the math…”
Robert Cottrell’s website of the week is ‘Wait But Why’.
Butterfly Effect
“Wake me up/ when it’s over, the idea that/ we are separate from the world/ in which the soul comes undone.”
Weekend poem, by Virginia Konchan.